Samsung Exynos 7420 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Samsung Exynos 7420 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Lower TDP (7W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.1976 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 24.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2100MHz)

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7420

205159

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +13%

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +100%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420 +5%

840

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7420

197

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +69%

334

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2100 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

512 KB

L2 cache

1 MB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

7 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 530

772 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

-

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Shannon 333

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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