Samsung Exynos 7420 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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Samsung Exynos 7420

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1976 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (24.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2100MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7420 +62%

205159

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7420 +33%

197

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2100 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

512 KB

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

7 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 330

772 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

4

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

-

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Shannon 333

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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