Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Exynos 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Exynos 1080 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Exynos 1080 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Exynos 1080 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Exynos 1080 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Exynos 1080
CPU 81894 178651
GPU 39122 251983
Memory 77991 127596
UX 71216 138654
Total score 270223 696884
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080

  • Exynos 1080 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Exynos 1080 has 157.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (697 K vs 270 K ).
  • Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Exynos 1080 Support 158.82% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (44 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Snapdragon 685
Exynos 1080 875.8

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-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 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency - 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 UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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 5.2 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 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
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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