Overview - Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 vs Exynos 1280 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 4 Gen 1 22
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 16
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 79
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 39
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Exynos 1280
CPU 114597 121972
GPU 93082 104889
Memory 68776 77341
UX 111637 106223
Total score 388092 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 20% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 21.21% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (1000 vs 825 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has 5.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (410 K vs 388 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 620
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 1835
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 4 4
  • Shading units - 48
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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 X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

CPU
22%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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