For the last couple of months, everyone has talked about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor as the next flagship powerhouse. Not one to be left behind, Samsung has unveiled its new Exynos 2100 chipset on Samsung.com, which will compete with Qualcomm's flagship offering.

What Does the Exynos 2100 Bring to the Table?

Samsung is using the 5nm EUV manufacturing process to create its new Exynos 2100 chip. With that more recent process, Samsung can generate substantial performance and power efficiency gains over the Exynos 990 chip.

The chip will come with a 5G modem, a first for a Samsung chip from the Exynos line. It'll support sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrums from 2G GSM/CDMA, 3G WCDMA, and 4G LTE, which means it'll connect to just about every form of cellular network under the sun.

The chip will be the first from the company to adopt ARM’s brand new Cortex-X1 as its primary core, which features up to 2.9GHz of beastly power. It also features three Cortex-A78 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores, which promises to bring lots of multicore improvements over the previous generation of Samsung's chip.

While the chip is quite a bit more powerful than the Exynos 990 chip, Samsung says it will feature 20 percent lower power consumption than the previous generation processor. That means that you won't need to trade battery life for power.

For graphics, Samsung says the power has been bumped by 40 percent thanks to the Mali-G78 GPU and Vulkan and OpenCL APIs.

The powerful chip can support camera sensors up to 200-megapixels, which is undoubtedly future-proofing this chip for future generations of smartphones. Additionally, it'll support a multi-camera experience with up to four sensors processing concurrently.

Samsung's Exynos 2100 chip will also support up to 4K resolution at 120FPS, which means you can get super slow motion shots at a high resolution. It'll even have enough power to record 8K video at 60FPS.

What Phones Are Getting the Exynos 2100 Chipset?

Samsung is already producing the Exynos 2100 chips, so they should be ready for primetime very soon. We'd expect the Samsung Galaxy S21 to include the Exynos 2100 chip in regions where Samsung doesn't have a partnership with Snapdragon.

It'll be interesting to see if the company can finally close the performance gap in real-world applications. The Galaxy S21 is set to be announced soon, so we'll find out what kind of real-world performance the Exynos 2100 can put out. Will the Snapdragon 888 or the Exynos 2100 sit atop the flagship processor mountain? We'll know soon.