Overview - Exynos 850 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 850 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 850 9
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 850 6
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 850 71
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 850 29
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 850 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 47291 216591
GPU 21386 324286
Memory 40704 138188
UX 22040 167760
Total score 131421 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 10.37% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 850 (905 vs 820 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Exynos 850 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 850 (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 544.36% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (847 K vs 131 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 850.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 850 150
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 850 937
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Exynos 850 74.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Exynos 850 10.4
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Exynos 850 16.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Exynos 850 12.4
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Exynos 850 5.29
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Exynos 850 1.38
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Exynos 850 356.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 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

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 8x 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 ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 3 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MP1 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 820 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 96 512
  • FLOPS 126 Gigaflops 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 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) No Hexagon 780
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 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 850

CPU
9%
GPU
6%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

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