Overview - Exynos 1280 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 1280 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 1280 24
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 1280 18
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 1280 82
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 1280 41
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 1280 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 121972 216591
GPU 104889 324286
Memory 77341 138188
UX 106223 167760
Total score 410425 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 10.50% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1000 vs 905 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 24.79% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (2995 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 106.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (847 K vs 410 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1280.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 1280 733
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 1280 1832
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Exynos 1280 116.6
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Exynos 1280 13.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Exynos 1280 33.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Exynos 1280 29.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Exynos 1280 13.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Exynos 1280 1.97
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Exynos 1280 556.4
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz 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 - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 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
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MP4 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 48 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2. 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 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 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 888 Plus

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