Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus 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 480 Plus 20
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Exynos 1280
CPU 103367 121972
GPU 83956 104889
Memory 61234 77341
UX 96732 106223
Total score 345289 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 9.09% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2400 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 21.21% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1000 vs 825 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has 18.86% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (410 K vs 345 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 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 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (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 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W -
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 2 4
  • Shading units 128 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) Hexagon 686 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 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 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Samsung Exynos 1280

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