Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Exynos 1480

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Exynos 1480 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Exynos 1480 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Exynos 1480 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Exynos 1480 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Exynos 1480
CPU 81894 239966
GPU 39122 172430
Memory 77991 149766
UX 71216 159472
Total score 270223 721634
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 1.82% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1480 (2800 vs 2750 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1480

  • Exynos 1480 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Exynos 1480 has 167.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (722 K vs 270 K ).
  • Exynos 1480 Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Exynos 1480 1180

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Exynos 1480 3536

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2750 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 -
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency - 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 17 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Yes
  • 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
  • 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 5.3
  • 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 1480

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