Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Samsung Exynos 880

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Samsung Exynos 880

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 880 . 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 0.2592 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

Samsung Exynos 880 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +28%

334

Samsung Exynos 880

259

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Samsung Exynos 880

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2000 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

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

653 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

1

Execution units

5

256

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2592 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

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

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

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 20MP

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, 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 3500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

May 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

S5E8805

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Samsung Exynos 880

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