Samsung Exynos 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Samsung Exynos 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 980 +86%

433794

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +122%

869

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +134%

1867

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +27%

334

Samsung Exynos 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2200 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

8 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Adreno 530

728 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

5

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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