Overview - Exynos 1280 Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 1280 vs Snapdragon 778G 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 1280 24
Snapdragon 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 1280 18
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 1280 82
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 1280 41
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 81.82% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1000 vs 550 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778G Plus (5 vs 6 nm).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 4.17% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (2500 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 41.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (581 K vs 410 K ).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1280.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 1280 733
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 1280 1832
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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Exynos 1280 116.6
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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Exynos 1280 13.5
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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Exynos 1280 33.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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Exynos 1280 29.3
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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Exynos 1280 13.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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Exynos 1280 1.97
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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Exynos 1280 556.4
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 2 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MP4 Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 48 384
  • FLOPS - 845 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2. 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 770
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP 1x 192MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K 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

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2550 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 3700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 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 1280

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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