Samsung Exynos 7870 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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Samsung Exynos 7870 Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 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 7870 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Released 2 years late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.148 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1600MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7870 +15%

146176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 +572%

148

Samsung Exynos 7870

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

1600 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

3 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

Adreno 330

700 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

1

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

4

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Feb 2014

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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