It is not particularly new after Vivo announced the Y70s with exactly this processor yesterday. The Exynos 880 with an 8nm octa-core is a less powerful version of the Exynos 980, which debuted in September 2019 and has the great advantage of introducing 5G technology to an increasingly competitive midrange market.
The similarities with the Exynos 980 are quite strong, with the same 2×6 arrangement, two Cortex A77 at 2 GHz, and six Cortex A55 at 1.8 GHz, with a Mali G76 MP5 ARM GPU.
Performance may be a bit off the top end of the spectrum, at least last year, but we found some limitations of Exynos 880 with the screens, which can only be FHD+, or the cameras, which have to be 64 MP maximum and can only record 4K at 30 frames per second. Also the memory is limited to UFS 2.1, while the memory will be LPDDR4X. Meanwhile we find WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 instead of their latest versions, but at least we have FM radio.
With these predicates, the Exynos 980 will hopefully be found on smartphones in the lower middle range, as it seems to have a lower smartphone optimization capability than the Snapdragon 765.
However, its trump card is the 5G sub-6GHz connectivity. Without a doubt, the ecosystem of 5G processors is starting to grow, although we’re still a long way from an interesting 5G network and even more interesting tariffs.