Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 vs Exynos 1280 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 690 22
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Exynos 1280
CPU 110385 121972
GPU 76645 104889
Memory 63724 77341
UX 94636 106223
Total score 345390 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 20% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 5.26% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1000 vs 950 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has 18.83% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (410 K vs 345 K ).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 128 48
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 692 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, 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 X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • 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 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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