What's behind the new Samsung Galaxy S5 - Exynos octa or Snapdragon 801? The Samsung Galaxy S5 will come in two variants: one with Samsung's own new Exynos 5422 octa-core processor and another with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor. Samsung introduced several new Exynos processors on Wednesday at MWC 2014. by Malarie Gokey