Samsung Exynos 7872 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Samsung Exynos 7872

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 7872 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 7872 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.0384 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 3.7GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 2000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7872

38

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +739%

319

Samsung Exynos 7872

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

6

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP1

GPU name

Adreno 530

1200 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

1

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.0384 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

3.7 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2018

Announced

Nov 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

S5E7872

Model number

MSM8996

Samsung Exynos 7872

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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