Exynos
CPUSmartphoneReleased Jan 12, 2021

Samsung Exynos 2100

8C/8T · 2.9 GHz

The Samsung Exynos 2100 is a flagship smartphone chip announced in January 2021 and used in the Galaxy S21 series in many markets. It was Samsung's first 5 nm EUV mobile processor and its first premium chip with an integrated 5G modem, and it replaced Samsung's custom Mongoose cores with an Arm Cortex-X1 prime core alongside three Cortex-A78 and four Cortex-A55 cores. Samsung rated it at over 30% higher multi-core performance and over 40% faster graphics than its predecessor, with an Arm Mali-G78 GPU and a triple-core NPU delivering 26 TOPS. It supports cameras of up to 200 MP, 8K60 video decoding and 5G downlink speeds of up to 7.35 Gbps on mmWave.

General

Manufacturer
Samsung
Model
Samsung Exynos 2100
Segment
Smartphone
Generation
Exynos 2000 Series
Codename
S5E9840
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
1× Cortex-X1 @2.91 GHz + 3× Cortex-A78 @2.81 GHz + 4× Cortex-A55 @2.2 GHz
Release date
Jan 12, 2021

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
8 cores / 8 threadsS1+P3+E4
Base clock
—
Boost clock
2.91 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
5 nm
Samsung 5 nm EUV (5LPE)

Platform

Socket
—
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Mali-G78 MP14
Clock: 854 MHz
Memory type
LPDDR5
Memory size
—
ECC memory
—
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
Armv8.2-A
NPU
Samsung NPU (triple-core) — 26 TOPS

OS support

Notes
A smartphone SoC used in Samsung Galaxy devices running Android. Windows, macOS, ChromeOS and desktop Linux distributions are not supported.
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