wraggster
February 25th, 2014, 23:27
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/9b31cb54c168c75d6b1cabaf24d09941/octo.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/25/samsung-galaxy-s5-octo-core/)So that's Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5 (http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/24/samsung-galaxy-s5-preview/). The company makes the majority of the components itself, but what happened to those home-grownExynos (http://www.engadget.com/tag/exynos/) processors? Well, Samsung tells us that the GS5 will come in two variants, one with the 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon chip (the model that we tested out at MWC), and another with a 2.1GHz octo-core Exynos. Samsung did the same (http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/06/samsung-galaxy-s4-octacore-review/) with the Galaxy S4 last year, but we didn't pick up any huge differences in performance when we compared the two phones. The LTE-capable GS4s never left Korea (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/29/samsung-exynos-octa-now-rocking-lte-destined-to-korean-market/), however, so we'd predict a similarly limited roll-out for any Exynos-powered GS5s.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/25/samsung-galaxy-s5-octo-core/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/25/samsung-galaxy-s5-octo-core/