Overview - Exynos 850 Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 850 vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoCs by Samsung and Qualcomm 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
Exynos 850 9
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 850 6
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 37
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 850 71
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 850 29
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 850 Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU 47291 256787
GPU 21386 272332
Memory 40704 177778
UX 22040 159966
Total score 131421 866863
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Exynos 850 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 850 (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 559.61% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (867 K vs 131 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 850.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 850 150
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 850 937
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375

Image compression

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Exynos 850 74.3
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Face detection

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Exynos 850 10.4
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Exynos 850 16.7
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Exynos 850 12.4
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Exynos 850 5.29
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Exynos 850 1.38
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

SQLite

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Exynos 850 356.2
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

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Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

70%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.6-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MP1 Adreno 720
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 820 MHz -
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS 126 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) No Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X63
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Samsung Exynos 850

CPU
9%
GPU
6%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

CPU
44%
GPU
37%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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