Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Samsung Exynos 9820

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Samsung Exynos 9820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 9820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.607 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (33.4GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Samsung Exynos 9820 +178%

648880

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Samsung Exynos 9820 +91%

747

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Samsung Exynos 9820 +192%

2333

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Samsung Exynos 9820 +81%

607

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Samsung Exynos 9820

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M4
2x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

8.5

11 W

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

653 MHz

GPU frequency

702 MHz

1

Execution units

12

256

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.607 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

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

33.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

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 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

S5E9820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9820

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