Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Samsung Exynos 7420

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Samsung Exynos 7420

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs. 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 7W)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1976 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (24.8GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +7%

220696

Samsung Exynos 7420

205159

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +51%

295

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +29%

1088

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Samsung Exynos 7420 +7%

197

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Samsung Exynos 7420

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

1800 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

512 KB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

7 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

Mali-T760 MP8

720 MHz

GPU frequency

772 MHz

1

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1976 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

24.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1440

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Shannon 333

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Apr 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7420

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