Samsung Exynos 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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Samsung Exynos 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (9W vs 10W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 8nm)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980

869

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +70%

1481

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980

1867

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +103%

3794

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +556%

1720

Samsung Exynos 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2200 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

8 nm

Process

5 nm

9 W

TDP

10 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Adreno 660

728 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

5

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

512

8

Max size

24

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 780

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

是

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Dec 2020

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

SM8350

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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