Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Samsung Exynos 7872

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Samsung Exynos 7872

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 6 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 7872 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0384 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 3.7GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

Samsung Exynos 7872 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +778%

334

Samsung Exynos 7872

38

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Samsung Exynos 7872

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

4

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP1

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1200 MHz

1

Execution units

1

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0384 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

3.7 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jan 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

S5E7872

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7872

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