Overview - Exynos 1080 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 1080 vs Snapdragon 888 Plus SoCs by Samsung and Qualcomm 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
Exynos 1080 34
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 1080 31
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 1080 82
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 1080 49
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 1080 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 178651 216591
GPU 251983 324286
Memory 127596 138188
UX 138654 167760
Total score 696884 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 6.96% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (2995 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 13.13% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (905 vs 800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1080 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 21.52% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1080 (847 K vs 697 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1080.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 1080 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 1080 833
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 1080 2890
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Exynos 1080 135.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Exynos 1080 30
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Exynos 1080 53.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Exynos 1080 51.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Exynos 1080 26.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Exynos 1080 3.53
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Exynos 1080 875.8
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 9 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP10 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 10 2
  • Shading units 160 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 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 2750 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Processor Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K 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 - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Samsung Exynos 1080

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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