Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Samsung Exynos 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Samsung Exynos 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Samsung Exynos 980 +66%

433794

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Samsung Exynos 980 +169%

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

Samsung Exynos 980 +125%

1867

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +21%

319

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2150 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

624 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

1

Execution units

5

256

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

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 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996

Model number

S5E9630

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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