Samsung Exynos 9610 Advantages
Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 2200MHz)
Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)
Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.0918 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 11.9GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 10nm)
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