Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Exynos 1280
CPU 143028 121972
GPU 179320 104889
Memory 69420 77341
UX 72190 106223
Total score 463958 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 23.33% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (2960 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 13.04% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (464 K vs 410 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 1280 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 48.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1000 vs 675 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 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 QHD @ 60Hz 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 384 48
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops -
  • 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 34.13 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Yes
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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 X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Samsung Exynos 1280

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