Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Exynos 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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 680 16
Exynos 1080 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Exynos 1080 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Exynos 1080 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Exynos 1080 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Exynos 1080
CPU 81097 178651
GPU 38425 251983
Memory 68438 127596
UX 63600 138654
Total score 251560 696884
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 39.25% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (1114 vs 800 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080

  • Exynos 1080 has 16.67% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (2800 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Exynos 1080 has 177.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (697 K vs 252 K ).
  • Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Exynos 1080 Support 158.82% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (44 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
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+ @ 90 Hz WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
    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 - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G78 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 96 160
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 17 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Neural Processor
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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 X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Samsung Exynos 1080

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