A petition has been filed on Change.org aimed at putting pressure on Samsung to stop releasing its flagship models with Exynos chipsets. The petition is also seeking to stop Samsung from using its own camera sensor instead of the ones manufactured by Sony. The petition claims the Exynos-powered phones are slower and have worse battery life. The camera sensors are also said to be worse than what obtains on the Qualcomm version. They also get hotter and throttle faster, it claims.
Over the years, Samsung has kept up with the practice of releasing its flagship models with two different processors, a Snapdragon SoC and an Exynos chipset. The Korean tech giant usually launches its flagship models in Europe and Asia packing the latest Exynos flagship SoC while buyers in North America get the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC.
Ordinarily, this won’t have been a problem if both chipsets were on par with each other. Instead, the Snapdragon processors are usually more powerful than Samsung’s own Exynos processor. Using the latest Snapdragon 865 and Exynos 990 as reference points, the Snapdragon 865 packs Cortex A77 cores which is said to bring up to 20% boost in performance compared to the Cortex A76 on the Exynos 990 chipset. The SD865 chipset also tags along an Adreno 650 GPU which outpaces the Mali G77 GPU onboard the Exynos flagship SoC.
It is left to be seen if the petition will make any headway. As at the time of filing this report, it had only attracted 258 signatories. Even if it gathers thousands and even millions of supporters, that won’t guaranty that Samsung will take any action.
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