Samsung Orion 2500 processor exposed: using the new X5 architecture, 10 cores to ensure that the power consumption does not explode

Samsung has just released a new generation of Galaxy S24 series mobile phones, equipped with Orion 2400 processor, from the performance point of view, Orion 2400 is slightly worse than the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 processor in terms of CPU, and the GPU is still lagging behind, about 20% different from Snapdragon 8 Gen3. However, compared with the Orion 2300 processor, at least the Orion 2400 processor is really used in mobile phones, and the performance is okay, so Samsung is also confident in promoting the research and development of the Orion 2500 processor.

According to the latest news, Samsung is currently stepping up research and development of Orion 2500 processor, which seems to be not much different from Orion 2400 processor, all of which are 10 cores, in addition to the CPU super-large core will use the latest Cortex-X5 architecture, thereby improving the performance and energy consumption ratio of the CPU, and the large core uses the Cortex-A730 architecture, which is also a certain improvement over the current A720. However, in terms of frequency, whether it is X5 or A730, they are all higher than the current architecture100MHz, it seems that Samsung is still worried that the new architecture will lead to the explosion of CPU power consumption, thereby reducing the battery life of the mobile phone and increasing the cost of heat dissipation.

At the same time, taking into account the problem of energy consumption, the Samsung Orion 2500 processor will not use too much Cortex-X5 architecture, but 1+3+2+4 design, and compared with the current 4LPP+ process, the next generation Orion 2500 processor will also use the 3nm process, of course, Samsung's latest 3GAA process process, but the A17 Pro processor used by Apple is based on TSMC's 3nm process, and it is not better than A16 in terms of energy consumption How much higher is Pro, most of the extra transistors are also used for AI computing, so even if Samsung's 3nm GAA process is successfully implemented, there is a high probability that Samsung will still blow AI performance. As for the traditional CPU and graphics performance, it is likely that it is just a normal improvement.

However, for domestic users, it seems that only the European version of Samsung mobile phones will use the Orion 2500 processor, and the national bank is likely to be the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor, so everyone is still concerned about whether Samsung will compromise with the Orion 2500 processor, thereby cutting the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor.