The Exynos 2100 is built on Samsung’s on 5nm EUV process tech, and can deliver either a 10 percent uplift in performance or a 20 percent reduction in power consumption compared to the Exynos 990.
Samsung’s custom cores in practice haven’t been able to keep up with what Qualcomm has offered year-after-year, so perhaps this move to a more «reference» design will bring performance more in line with what the Snapdragon 888 is currently able to offer. Given Samsung’s design direction, it should come as no surprise that the Exynos 2100 looks quite familiar to the Snapdragon 888 with regards to specs. At the heart of the SoC is an Arm Cortex-X1 prime core running at 2.9GHz, which is flanked by three Cortex-A78 high-performance cores. There are also four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores to handle more menial tasks. This is a similar layout to the Snapdragon 888, although its prime core is clocked slightly lower at 2.
