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Exynos 8 Octa
General Info
Designer	Samsung
Manufacturer	Samsung
Model Number	8890
Market	Mobile
Introduction	November 12, 2015 (announced) February 21, 2016 (launched)
General Specs
Family	Exynos
Series	Exynos 8
Frequency	2,300 MHz, 1,600 MHz
Turbo Frequency	2,600 MHz
Turbo Frequency	2,600 MHz (1 core), 2,600 MHz (2 cores), 2,300 MHz (3 cores), 2,300 MHz (4 cores)
Microarchitecture
ISA	ARMv8 (ARM)
Microarchitecture	Mongoose 1, Cortex-A53
Core Name	Exynos M1, Cortex-A53
Process	14 nm
Technology	CMOS
Word Size	64 bit
Cores	8
Threads	8
Max Memory	4 GiB
Multiprocessing
Max SMP	1-Way (Uniprocessor)
Succession
Exynos 7420 Exynos 8895

Exynos 8 Octa (8890) is a 64-bit octa-core high-performance mobile SoC designed by Samsung and introduced in early 2016 for their consumer electronics. Manufactured on Samsung's 2nd generation 14 nm process, the 8890 features eight cores consisting of a big quad-core cluster operating at 2.3 GHz with a turbo of up to 2.6 GHz based on Samsung's custom Mongoose 1 microarchitecture and another little quad-core cluster operating at 1.6 GHz consisting of Cortex-A53 cores. This chip supports up to 4 GiB of dual-channel 32-bit LPDDR4-3600 memory and incorporates a Mali-T880 MP12 GPU operating at 650 MHz. The 8890 incorporates an LTE modem supporting cat 12 download and cat 13 upload.

Overview

The Exynos 8 Octa is the first microprocessor that includes Samsung's first custom cores based on the Mongoose 1 microarchitecture. Those cores are said to provide over 30% higher performance and 10% lower power compared to the Exynos 7 Octa. The chip features two quad-core clusters. The first one is the high-performance Mongoose 1 core cluster and a second low-power Cortex-A53 core cluster. Communication is done over Samsung's cache-coherent Coherent Interconnect (SCI).

Cache

Main articles: Mongoose 1 § Cache and Cortex-A53 § Cache

For the Mongoose 1 core cluster:

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Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 384 KiB 393,216 B 0.375 MiB L1I$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 4x64 KiB 4-way set associative   L1D$ 128 KiB 131,072 B 0.125 MiB 4x32 KiB 8-way set associative   L2$ 2 MiB 2,048 KiB 2,097,152 B 0.00195 GiB     4x512 KiB 16-way set associative

For the Cortex-A53 cluster:

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Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB L1I$ 128 KiB 131,072 B 0.125 MiB 4x32 KiB 2-way set associative   L1D$ 128 KiB 131,072 B 0.125 MiB 4x32 KiB 4-way set associative   L2$ 256 KiB 0.25 MiB 262,144 B 2.441406e-4 GiB     1x256 KiB 16-way set associative

Memory controller

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	Integrated Memory Controller
	Max Type LPDDR4-3600 Supports ECC No Max Mem 4 GiB Frequency 1800 MHz Controllers 2 Channels 2 Width 32 bit Bandwidth Single 13.41 GiB/s Double 26.82 GiB/s

Graphics

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	Integrated Graphics Information
	GPU Mali-T880 Designer ARM Holdings Execution Units 12 Max Displays 2 Frequency 600 MHz 0.6 GHz 600,000 KHz Output DSI Standards DirectX 11.2 OpenCL 1.2 OpenGL ES 3.1

Codec	Encode	Decode
HEVC (H.265)	✔	✔
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)	✔	✔
VP9	✔	✔

All at 4K UHD 60fps.

Wireless

Wireless Communications
Cellular
4G	LTE Advanced UE Cat DL 12 (600 Mbps) UE Cat UL 13 (150 Mbps)

Features

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	Supported ARM Extensions & Processor Features
	NEON Advanced SIMD extension CRC32 CRC-32 checksum Extension Crypto Cryptographic Extension FP Floating-point Extension

Utilizing devices

• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 SM-N930F
• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 SM-N930FD
• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 SM-N930S
• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 SM-N930K
• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 SM-N930L
• Samsung Galaxy Note Fan Edition

• Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930F
• Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930FD
• Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930S
• Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930K
• Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930L
• Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930W8

• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935F
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935FD
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935S
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935K
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935L

• MicroVision MV 8890-LCD
• Meizu Pro 6 Plus

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Documents

• Exynos 8 Octa Product Brief