Apple A10 Fusion vs Samsung Exynos 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Higher Frequency (2340MHz vs 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A10 Fusion

347439

Samsung Exynos 980 +24%

433794

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A10 Fusion +1%

879

Samsung Exynos 980

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A10 Fusion

1332

Samsung Exynos 980 +40%

1867

FP32 (float)

Apple A10 Fusion

249

Samsung Exynos 980 +5%

262

Apple A10 Fusion

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Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2340 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

16 nm

Process

8 nm

3.3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

650 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

6

Execution units

5

32

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M10

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2016

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W24

Model number

S5E9630

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Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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