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The Samsung Exynos M3 - 6-wide Decode With 50%+ IPC Increase Finally, an ARM core that has the ambition to take on Apple's A series.

It's pretty amazing what they've achieved with such a narrow architecture. It has very good IPEU (instructions per execution unit :razz:)

Assuming 2.2 ghz on the big cores and 1.6 ghz on the little: (2162*2) 4324+ ((2162 * (16 / 22)) * 2)3144 = 7468 I was working with the overall score whereas you seem to be working with just the integer score. Makes sense because you can't expect the memory score to scale linearly with core count.

It fares better than the A9 on the memory score. Looking at those numbers and assuming a frequency of 2.2ghz, it has aproximatley the same integer IPC as A57 but 50% more floating point IPC. Memory performance is about 2x better. The multi-core performance is strangely low though. You'd think...

Still 3-wide apparently. Apple really caught the rest of the industry with their pants down it seems. When are we going to see someone other than Apple attempt a really wide core?

That memory score is extremely high. Are we looking at a 128 bit interface?

Some Manhattan 3.1 scores are starting to popup on GFXBench...

GFXBench scores: http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx30&os=Android&api=gl&D=Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920) 25.8 fps in manhattan. Not bad. For comparison, the 810 in the HTC One M9 gets 22.6 fps.

I take it from the lack of any reports that this was indeed just the Exynos 5433 then?

You're right, I completely missed the heterogeneous bit. The 5433 does fit that description perfectly.

Samsung are giving a talk tomorrow at ISSCC titled: This could be where we hear first details of their custom GPU and/or CPU cores.

That was an interesting read. Thanks.

I'm quite excited for the S6 all of a sudden. Hope they go all out on the GPU. MP8 + higher clocks at the very least.

A lot of talk that this will be on Samsung's 14nm process. Isn't it a bit soon for that? I was under the impression that 14nm won't be ready till Q3.

Taipan, like Krait, is a type of snake so it fits in with their reptilian theme. I'm a bit puzzled by the presence of big.LITTLE. Wasn't it a fairly unique idea when ARM came up with the scheme for A15/A7? Now we have Qualcomm also agreeing this is the right way forward for mobile SOCs.