As promised, Samsung has officially unveiled its first-ever 5nm mobile chipset, Exynos 1080, in China today. The Korean giant had already started talking about this chipset and revealed some of its key specifications earlier this week. And today, we’ve learned almost everything about the Exynos 1080 chipset, which will be the first 5nm chipset, made for Android smartphones. It follows in Apple A14 Bionic‘s footsteps, which was the world’s first 5nm mobile chipset.
The Exynos 1080 is a successor to last year’s 8nm Exynos 980 SoC found aboard the Vivo X30 series. The Exynos 980 also powered popular mid-range Samsung phones such as Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy 71 5G. The Exynos 1080 is an octa-core chipset based on the efficient 5nm EUV FinFET process node. It includes 4 Cortex-A78 cores and 4 Cortex-A55 cores.
The Exynos 1080 chipset also supports the latest LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage to maximize day-to-day performance. You also have a dedicated NPU and DSP to handle AI tasks, voice assistants, and demanding AR/ VR applications. The ISP (image signal processing) unit aboard this chipset supports up to six sensors and up to 200MP captures. It supports 4K @ 60 FPS video recording, along with HDR10+ and 10-bit color support.
Which will be the first smartphone to be powered by the Exynos 1080? You must have already seen the leaks and well, they are true. Vivo will be the first smartphone maker to adopt Samsung’s Exynos 1080 SoC. The Vivo X60 and X60 Pro, launching in China soon, will likely be the first smartphones to be powered by this 5nm chipset.
