Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Exynos 1480

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Exynos 1480 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 24
Exynos 1480 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 19
Exynos 1480 25
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Exynos 1480 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 39
Exynos 1480 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Exynos 1480
CPU 143028 239966
GPU 179320 172430
Memory 69420 149766
UX 72190 159472
Total score 463958 721634
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 7.64% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1480 (2960 vs 2750 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1480

  • Exynos 1480 has 92.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1300 vs 675 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Exynos 1480 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Exynos 1480 has 55.54% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (722 K vs 464 K ).
  • Exynos 1480 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Exynos 1480 Support 50.01% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (51.2 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Exynos 1480 1180

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Exynos 1480 3536

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Exynos 1480

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Exynos 1480

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Exynos 1480

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Exynos 1480

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Exynos 1480

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Exynos 1480

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Exynos 1480

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

68%
Turbo Clock Speed

2750 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

49%
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)
    4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 -
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • 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 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed 2000 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed 1200 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • 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
24%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Samsung Exynos 1480

CPU
36%
GPU
25%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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