Samsung Exynos 990 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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Samsung Exynos 990 Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 990 +220%

707030

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 990 +185%

842

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 990 +145%

2672

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 990 +511%

1126

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Samsung Exynos 990

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

CPU

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

2730 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP11

GPU name

Adreno 509

800 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

11

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

1.126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1843 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.3 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7350 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Oct 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

S5E9830

Model number

SDM636

Samsung Exynos 990

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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