Overview - Snapdragon 778g Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 778g 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 778g 32
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 778g 25
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 778g 79
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 778g 45
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

  • Snapdragon 778g has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778g has 31.68% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (540 K vs 410 K).
  • Snapdragon 778g has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1280.

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 104.08% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778g (1000 vs 490 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778g (5 vs 6 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778g 792
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778g 2850
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 778g 175.3
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 778g 25
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 778g 41
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 778g 36.7
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 778g 34.6
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 778g 3.03
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 778g 988.8
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 14 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Up to FHD @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 2 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 490 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 384 48
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 770 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 36MP 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

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 210 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 3700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2900 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2550 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X53 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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 778G

CPU
32%
GPU
25%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Samsung Exynos 1280

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