Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Exynos 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Exynos 1080 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 678 19
Exynos 1080 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Exynos 1080 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Exynos 1080 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Exynos 1080 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Exynos 1080
CPU 101216 178651
GPU 51346 251983
Memory 48181 127596
UX 82701 138654
Total score 283444 696884
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 5.62% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (845 vs 800 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080

  • Exynos 1080 has 27.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2800 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 54.55% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (5 vs 11 nm).
  • Exynos 1080 has 145.86% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (697 K vs 283 K ).
  • Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Exynos 1080 Support 195.30% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (44 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Exynos 1080 875.8

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 11 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Mali-G78 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 96 160
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Neural Processor
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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 X12 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU
34%
GPU
31%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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