Months after it hit the market, Samsung is finally revealing the details of the Exynos 5300 modem it supplies to Google for the Pixel 7 series, as well as the upcoming Pixel 8.
Google Tensor and Tensor G2 are chips designed by Google itself but with roots heavily in Samsung’s Exynos chips. With the switch to Samsung, Google gave up on using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips and their accompanying modems, which have shown time and time again to provide the best connections to cellular networks.
That was a problem for the Pixel 6 series, which suffered from weaker connections compared to devices with Qualcomm radios. But with the successor, Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Google integrated a new modem into Tensor G2 by the name of Exynos 5300 and with major improvements across the board as we tested last year.
Related: Google Tensor G2: How has the signal strength and speed improved on Pixel 7?
Samsung is now finally providing more details on the Exynos 5300 modem, with a new spec sheet offering up more context around the chip. This comes as the modem is being made available to other devices – apparently, Google managed to get early access exclusively, as no other devices have launched with the 5300 thus far.
Samsung says that the Exynos 5300 is significantly faster, more reliable, and more power efficient compared to its predecessors. The new modem, built on a 4nm process, is capable of delivering 5G download speeds of up to 10GBps with upload speeds of up to 3.87Gbps.
It’s further noted that on LTE networks, the 5300 can handle 3.0Gbps download and upload speeds up to 422Mbps.
Samsung doesn’t offer any specifics on power efficiency but says that the “4nm EUV process… improves power efficiency” over the Exynos 5123 and extends battery life. It also supports 3GPP’s 5G NR Release 16. The full modem specs follow:
5G NR
3GPP Rel. 16
Sub-6GHz
mmWaveNSA/SA
Supported Modes
LTE-FDD
LTE-TDD
HSPA
TD-SCDMA
WCDMA
CDMA
GSM/EDGE
Downlink Features
NR DL aggregated bandwidth
200 MHz for sub 6GHz
800 MHz for mmWave
4×4 MIMO in sub-6GHz
2×2 MIMO in mmWave
Up to 256-QAM in sub-6GHz
Up to 64-QAM in mmWave
Uplink Features
NR UL aggregated bandwidth
400 MHz for sub 6GHz
800 MHz for mmWave
2×2 MIMO
Up to 256-QAM in sub-6GHz
Up to 64-QAM in mmWave
The Exynos 5300 technically arrived first in the Google Pixel 7 series but is set to be used in other smartphones going forward, as well as being a part of Samsung’s Exynos 2300 chipset that would have been in the Galaxy S23 series if Samsung hadn’t struck a deal with Qualcomm for the “Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy” globally.
We already know that the chip will be used in the Google Pixel 8 series too. Back in November, an early leak regarding Tensor G3 revealed that the same Exynos 5300 modem would be used on the device.
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