Overview - Exynos 850 Vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 850 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 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 850 7
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 850 4
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 99
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 850 71
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 850 27
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 95
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 850 Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU 47291 635739
GPU 21386 1237734
Memory 40704 460296
UX 22040 457187
Total score 131421 2790956
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 34.15% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 850 (1100 vs 820 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 185.80% higher memory frequency than Exynos 850 (5333 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 850 (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 2,023.68% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (2,791 K vs 131 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 850.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 850 150
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 3155

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 850 937
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 9723

Image compression

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Exynos 850 74.3
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Face detection

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Exynos 850 10.4
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Speech recognition

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Exynos 850 16.7
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Machine learning

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Exynos 850 12.4
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Camera shooting

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Exynos 850 5.29
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

HTML 5

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Exynos 850 1.38
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

SQLite

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Exynos 850 356.2
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 140 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

107%
Base Frequency

4320 MHz

  • Architecture 8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
    6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MP1 Adreno 830
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 800
  • GPU frequency 820 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 96 768
  • FLOPS 126 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
  • DirectX version 12 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 85.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) No Hexagon
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2540
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X80
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - -
  • 4G Download Speed 300 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 6.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Samsung Exynos 850

CPU
7%
GPU
4%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

CPU
98%
GPU
99%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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