Overview - Exynos 850 Vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 850 vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 9
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 70
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 850 6
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 850 71
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 850 29
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 73
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 850 Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
CPU 47291 374214
GPU 21386 516258
Memory 40704 344248
UX 22040 259884
Total score 131421 1494604
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 34.15% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 850 (1100 vs 820 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 125.08% higher memory frequency than Exynos 850 (4200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 850 (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 1,037.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (1,495 K vs 131 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 850.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 850 150
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 850 937
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273

Image compression

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Exynos 850 74.3
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Face detection

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Exynos 850 10.4
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Exynos 850 16.7
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Machine learning

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Exynos 850 12.4
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Exynos 850 5.29
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

HTML 5

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Exynos 850 1.38
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

SQLite

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Exynos 850 356.2
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ QHD+ @ 144 Hz, 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 8 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MP1 Adreno 735
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 820 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 96 768
  • FLOPS 126 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 64 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) No Hexagon
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p 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 X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.4
  • 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
9%
GPU
6%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU
70%
GPU
63%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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