Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Score

Samsung Exynos 2500

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3200 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

10

Cores

6

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

256 KB

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

-

GPU name

Adreno 510

-

GPU frequency

600 MHz

-

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

128

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.1536 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR3

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

76.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X8

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2025

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8956

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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