Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Exynos 1480

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 vs Exynos 1480 SoCs by Qualcomm and Samsung respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 888 43
Exynos 1480 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Exynos 1480 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Exynos 1480 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Exynos 1480 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Exynos 1480
CPU 211734 239966
GPU 306250 172430
Memory 133870 149766
UX 156641 159472
Total score 808495 721634
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 3.27% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1480 (2840 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 12.04% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1480 (808 K vs 722 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1480.

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1480

  • Exynos 1480 has 54.76% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (1300 vs 840 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (4 vs 5 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Exynos 1480 1180

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Exynos 1480 3536

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Exynos 1480

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Exynos 1480

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Exynos 1480

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Exynos 1480

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Exynos 1480

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Exynos 1480

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Exynos 1480

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2750 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • 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)
    4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 -
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1720 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Samsung Exynos 1480

CPU
44%
GPU
31%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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