Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Samsung Exynos 2500

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2450MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

339384

Samsung Exynos 2500 +642%

2519784

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2450 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

10

2 MB

L2 cache

-

10 nm

Process

3 nm

3

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 540

GPU name

-

739 MHz

GPU frequency

-

1

Execution units

-

384

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.5675 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 682

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 682

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X16

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 16

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2016

Announced

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8998

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

Official page

-

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