Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Exynos 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Exynos 1080 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 870 39
Exynos 1080 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Exynos 1080 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Exynos 1080 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Exynos 1080 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 14.29% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (3200 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 1080 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080

  • Exynos 1080 has 24.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (800 vs 645 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Exynos 1080 has 8.19% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (697 K vs 644 K ).
  • Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Exynos 1080 875.8

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G78 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 512 160
  • FLOPS 1,267 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

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Neural Processor
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 5100 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X55 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU
34%
GPU
31%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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