Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Exynos 2100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Exynos 2100 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 8 Gen 1 46
Exynos 2100 41
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 48
Exynos 2100 36
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Exynos 2100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 60
Exynos 2100 53
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 3.45% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (3000 vs 2900 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 5.26% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (800 vs 760 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 2100 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 37.91% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 2100 (1,037 K vs 752 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 2100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Exynos 2100 1088

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Exynos 2100 3624

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Exynos 2100 170.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Exynos 2100 26.7

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Exynos 2100 64.15

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Exynos 2100 51.35

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Exynos 2100 33.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Exynos 2100 3.21

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Exynos 2100 970.15

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability 66%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz 4K @ 120 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 4096 x 2160
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz 8K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2900 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
    3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
    1x 2.9 GHz – Cortex-X1
    3x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Mali-G78 MP14
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 760 MHz
  • Execution units 3 14
  • Shading units 768 224
  • FLOPS - 976 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon AI Engine with Triple-core NPU and DSP (26 TOPS)
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 4096 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2560 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 3072 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 422 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 10240 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3072 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 7526 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3758 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Snapdragon X65 Exynos Modem 5200
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU
46%
GPU
48%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Samsung Exynos 2100

CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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