Samsung Exynos 990 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Samsung Exynos 990

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 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 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 990 +203%

707030

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 990 +115%

842

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 990 +235%

2672

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 990 +237%

1126

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Samsung Exynos 990

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2730 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP11

GPU name

Adreno 530

800 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

11

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

16

Max size

8

1.126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 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

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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. 12

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

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9830

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Samsung Exynos 990

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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