Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Exynos 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Exynos 1080 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
Exynos 1080 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Exynos 1080 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
Exynos 1080 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G Exynos 1080
CPU 98820 178651
GPU 71078 251983
Memory 47158 127596
UX 52126 138654
Total score 269182 696884
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080

  • Exynos 1080 has 21.74% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (2800 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 6.67% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (800 vs 750 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 47.37% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (2750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Exynos 1080 has 158.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (697 K vs 269 K ).
  • Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • Exynos 1080 Support 216.32% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (44 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Exynos 1080 875.8

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    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 1 MB 4 MB
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Mali-G78 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 128 160
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 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) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Neural Processor
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Samsung Exynos 1080

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