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Samsung Exynos 850
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Exynos 850

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Exynos 850 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 850 9
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Exynos 850 6
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Exynos 850 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Exynos 850 29
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Exynos 850
CPU 143028 47291
GPU 179320 21386
Memory 69420 40704
UX 72190 22040
Total score 463958 131421
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Exynos 850 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 850 (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 253.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (464 K vs 131 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 566.67% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 850 (2000 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 850

  • Exynos 850 has 21.48% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (820 vs 675 MHz).
  • Exynos 850 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Exynos 850 150

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Exynos 850 937

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Exynos 850 74.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Exynos 850 10.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Exynos 850 16.7

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Exynos 850 12.4

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Exynos 850 5.29

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Exynos 850 1.38

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Exynos 850 356.2

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2520 x 1080
  • 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

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

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)
    8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G52 MP1
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 820 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 384 96
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 126 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 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 No
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • 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 850

CPU
9%
GPU
6%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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