If you recall in January Samsung unveiled their flagship processor of 2018 i.e. Exynos 9810, which was used in Galaxy S9 and S9+. According to Samsung, this is the big improvement over the last year’s processor mainly in terms of AI, video recording, and other insides. Usually, Samsung keeps away all these USPs of their flagship processor from their mid-range and even premium mid-range processors. But seems like many things in 2018 is changing, and so does this habit of Samsung as well. That’s because now Samsung has officially announced their new premium mid-range processor i.e. Exynos 9610.
This processor stands in a completely new series of Exynos 7 series, right after the flagship Exynos 9810. Even though Samsung didn’t announce any device which will have this processor, but we are assuming it to come on Samsung’s premium mid-range series like Galaxy A & C series. This is an octa-core processor with four Cortex A73 cores clocked at 2.3Ghz and four Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.6Ghz each. It has the new Mali-G72 GPU which will try to provide flagship level gaming, I said it will try because Samsung is underclocking its cores as of now. This processor has 13 LTE modem category with up to 600Mbps download speeds, 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO WiFi system, and Bluetooth 5.0 support.
Talking about the features of this processor, it has the latest on-trend Neural Network Engine, which combines visual and image processing to give some great results in camera and AI department. We can see this in high-end processors like Snapdragon 845, Kirin 970, and even on Exynos 9810. Samsung says that with this technology the smartphones will be able to recognize facial prints even when it’s unclear due to some other objects. With this new processor, even the single camera can take good bokeh shots with the help of it’s Smart Depth Sensing Capabilities. Also, we can expect some good low light images as this chipset will merge multiple photos into one single photo.
Now coming to the video department, the highlight of this processor is that it can shoot slow-motion videos at the frame rate of 480fps. This slow-motion video can be recording in Full HD resolution. Even though the frame rate is exactly half as compared to 960fps on Exynos 9810, it can record it on Full HD resolution which is higher than Exynos 9810’s HD resolution. So with this processor, we can expect those beautiful slow-motion even on premium mid-range smartphones, and we might see this much or even higher frame rate support on upcoming Qualcomm and Kirin processors. Talking about the video playback compatibility, it can play videos up to 4k resolution at 120fps.
Samsung will start the mass production of this processor by the second half of 2018, which means that we will see this processor in next year’s premium mid-range smartphones. So still we have a long way to see this processor in action. Also at the time, it will start shipping with Samsung smartphones, other OEMs like Qualcomm might also launch processors having similar features.
So that’s all the information we have as of now. Personally speaking, I do think that if Samsung is providing this much functionalities in their premium mid-range processor, their next generation flagship processor will surely bring something big for us. Well, what are your thoughts on this new processor? Do let us know in the comment section below. Also, stay tuned with us for more information.
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