Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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 870 39
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Exynos 1280
CPU 179347 121972
GPU 270188 104889
Memory 98761 77341
UX 95818 106223
Total score 644114 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 33.33% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (3200 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 56.94% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (644 K vs 410 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 1280 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 55.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1000 vs 645 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 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)
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 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 -
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 512 48
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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

  • Modem X55 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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 1280

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