Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Samsung Exynos 8890

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Samsung Exynos 8890

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 8890 . 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 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 26.82GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2300MHz)

Released 9 months late

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +1%

233076

Samsung Exynos 8890

228887

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +21%

391

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Samsung Exynos 8890 +11%

890

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +34%

334

Samsung Exynos 8890

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Samsung Exynos 8890

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP12

653 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

12

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

26.82 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

SGA8890A

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Samsung Exynos 8890

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