Samsung Exynos 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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Samsung Exynos 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 12nm)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980 +835%

262

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

Samsung Exynos 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2200 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

8 nm

Process

12 nm

9 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Adreno 504

728 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

5

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Jun 2018

Mid range

Class

Low end

S5E9630

Model number

SDM429

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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