Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.487 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Samsung Exynos 1280 +307%

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

Samsung Exynos 1280 +110%

1927

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2200 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

1

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

48

8

Max size

8

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.5 GB/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X9

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Mar 2022

Mid range

Class

Mid range

MSM8953 Pro

Model number

S5E8825

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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