Samsung Exynos 1080 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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Samsung Exynos 1080

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Samsung Exynos 1080 vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.024 TFLOPS vs 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 5 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 1080 +154%

822

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 1080 +260%

2980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 1080 +221%

1024

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Samsung Exynos 1080

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

2800 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

5 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G78 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 530

800 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

10

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

1.024 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Processor

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 3.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7350 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Nov 2020

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9815

Model number

MSM8996

Samsung Exynos 1080

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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