Samsung Galaxy S8 to come with Exynos 8895 chipset

Samsung has had a tragic 2016. However, the company hopes to change that in 2017 with a line of launches scheduled. Leaks and speculations regarding the company's future plans keep taking the rounds on the internet. On similar lines, a new leak regarding the company's Galaxy S8 suggests that the smartphone may be powered by the company's own Exynos 8895 chipset.

"Samsung will use its home-grown Exynos 8895 chipset in the Galaxy S8 next year, and the company has been testing it for the past five months with clock speeds as high as 4GHz. It was also being predicted that the chipset would make use of ARM's new Mali-G71 GPU," reported Sammobile.

The same report suggests that the company will be making use of chipsets from two different makers. Hence, depending on where the users order the device from, they have the possibility of either getting an S8 with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 or an S8 powered by Samsung's own Exynos 8895 chipset.

What's more? The Exynos 8895 is also apparently coming in two versions. The first one - namely 8895M - will offer quad-core Samsung-designed M2 performance CPU cluster clocked at 200MHz higher than the 8895V and the second one - namely G71 - will be equipped with two extra cores in comparison to the previous version. Moreover, the latter will be made using a 10nm process and its CPU will be an octa-core part with four M2 performance cores designed by Samsung along with four battery-friendly ARM Cortex-A53 cores.

The former will be clocked at up to 2.5GHz in the M version of the chip and 2.3GHz in the V model. The A53 cores will go to 1.7GHz in both, reported GSMarena. "The Mali-G71 GPU employed by both iterations of the 8895 will have 20 cores in the high-end M model and 18 in the V variant. In both cases, the GPU will be clocked at 550 MHz. The Exynos 8895 supports LPDDR4 RAM, UFS 2.1 storage, 4K screens, and Cat.16 LTE," the report further added.

Reports suggest that the South-Korean tech giant is planning on launching its Galaxy S8 smartphone sometime in April, with shipping to start immediately after.