Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Samsung Exynos 2500

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

Samsung Exynos 2500 +1041%

2519784

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

1800 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

-

720 MHz

GPU frequency

-

1

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5T

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Jan 2025

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

-

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