Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com) on February 3, 2015 2:39 pm wrote:
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on February 3, 2015 12:36 pm wrote:
> > http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150203006487/en/ARM-Sets-Standard-Premium-Mobile-Experience#.VNEfWELSm-U
> >
> > Looks like it will be slightly higher than Apple A8 performance (though,
> > of course, details are vague till we see the tech blog right ups).
>
> A ~2.0GHz Exynos 7420 already equals A8 on integer and memory, being only behind on FP.
> So it's obvious A72 at 2.5GHz will beat A8 by a huge margin. I guess it will match Denver
> and Apple A9 on single threaded int/fp/mem performance - it's going to be a close race.
>
> Wilco

That does look like a nice CPU. I look forward to seeing the whole package when Galaxy S6 gets released.
But why do you talk about it being at 2GHz? The Geekbench results all show the Exynos at 1.5GHz (which suggests that, like Apple, Samsung have concluded that brainiac is a better use of power than speed demon).