Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Exynos 1480

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
Exynos 1480 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Exynos 1480 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Exynos 1480 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Exynos 1480 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Exynos 1480
CPU 101216 239966
GPU 51346 172430
Memory 48181 149766
UX 82701 159472
Total score 283444 721634
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1480

  • Exynos 1480 has 25% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2750 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 53.85% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1300 vs 845 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 63.64% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (4 vs 11 nm).
  • Exynos 1480 has 154.59% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (722 K vs 283 K ).
  • Exynos 1480 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Exynos 1480 Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (51.2 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Exynos 1480 1180

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Exynos 1480 3536

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Exynos 1480

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Exynos 1480

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Exynos 1480

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Exynos 1480

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Exynos 1480

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Exynos 1480

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Exynos 1480

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2750 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)
    4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 11 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 -
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 12 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 Yes
  • 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
  • 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 5.3
  • 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 1480

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