Samsung Exynos 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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Samsung Exynos 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 28nm)

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +198%

869

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +148%

1867

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980 +71%

262

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Samsung Exynos 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2200 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

256 KB

8 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

9 W

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Adreno 510

728 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

5

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 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

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

X8

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Feb 2015

Mid range

Class

Mid range

S5E9630

Model number

MSM8956

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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