There's really not much left to be known about Samsung's upcoming flagship device.
Expected to finally be launched just in time for Mobile World Congress next month, the internet has gotten the inside scoop of the Galaxy S7.
The only things really left unknown is the appearance of the device, and it seems Samsung is keeping that under wraps pretty well. Otherwise, we've all got a good grasp of its specs.
As expected, the processors powering the device will be of two types, depending on the market in which the S7 will be sold. Snapdragon 820's for the North American region, and Exynos 8890's for Asian regions and probably for the rest of the world.
By themselves, these two chips are already quite powerful by themselves. But how do they compete against each other?
Benchmark scores for the Exynos 8890 have been out for quite some time, and the Snapdragon 820's scores have also been measured. The Snapdragon 820 immediately loses compared to the Exynos 8890 when it comes to multi-core performance. That much is expected since the Snapdragon processor has only four cores while the Samsung has eight cores.
In GeekBench 3, Samsung's chip scored 5946 while the Snapdragon clocked in at 4979 in multi-core testing. In fact, last year's Galaxy S6 with the Exynos 7420 chip would have outperformed an S7 with the upcoming Snapdragon 820 by these standards.
But the results do change under single core testing. The Snapdragon fares better with a score of 2,282, besting the Exynos' score of 1,873. These, however, are just the cold hard numbers that are not yet working within Samsung's TouchWiz software. When both variants of the Galaxy S7 are released, we'll definitively find out which of the two processors performs best.
That should be around a month from now. Typically, Samsung has taken to preempting MWC by announcing its next generation flagship about a day before the convention begins. We expect history to repeat itself this year, too.
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