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Exynos 2100 vs A14 Bionic

Exynos 2100
VS
A14 Bionic
Exynos 2100
A14 Bionic

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 2100 (Mali-G78 MP14) with the older 6-core Apple A14 Bionic (Apple A14 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v11
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (24)

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Samsung Exynos 2100
  • Supports 50% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 34.1 GB/s)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Performs 17% better in floating-point computations
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
  • Higher GPU frequency (~50%)
  • Shows better (up to 25%) AnTuTu 11 score – 1326K vs 1065K
  • 7% higher CPU clock speed (3100 vs 2900 MHz)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Exynos 2100
vs
A14 Bionic

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Exynos 2100
1065369
A14 Bionic +25%
1326975
CPU 373598 364692
GPU 156133 311592
Memory 227441 180518
UX 308197 470169
Total score 1065369 1326975
Samples [40 tests] [55 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Exynos 2100
1435
A14 Bionic +46%
2095
Multi-Core Score
Exynos 2100
3555
A14 Bionic +49%
5297
Asset compression 162 MB/sec 182.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 104 pages/sec 110.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 135.5 Mpixels/sec 123.2 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 69.2 images/sec 104.9 images/sec
HDR 113 Mpixels/sec 164.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 11.9 images/sec 19.1 images/sec
Photo processing 35.2 images/sec 50.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.67 Mpixels/sec 5.36 Mpixels/sec
Samples 25 tests 22 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Exynos 2100
6754
A14 Bionic +149%
16822
Background blur 9.88 images/sec 27.6 images/sec
Face detection 5.1 images/sec 35.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.29 Gpixels/sec 0.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.37 Gpixels/sec 0.83 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 21.5 Gpixels/sec 50.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 1290.7 FPS 1772.1 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 17 tests 17 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score 328 -
Stability 72% -
Graphics test 2 FPS -
3DMark Solar Bay
Score - 2767
Stability - 85%
Graphics test - 11 FPS
Section 1 - 13 FPS
Section 2 - 10 FPS
Section 3 - 8 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Exynos 2100
1800
A14 Bionic +24%
2229
Score 1800 2229
Stability 64% 86%
Graphics test 10 FPS 13 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 13238 -
Video editing score 7092 -
Data manipulation score 10433 -
Photo editing score 29658 -
Writing score 15614 -
Phones tested Less than 3 -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 2100
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-06 (Nurik)AnTuTu 12900228
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-30 (Luckyy)AnTuTu 121281558
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-30 -> fh_hxx19AnTuTu 121191592
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-30 -> fh_hxx19AnTuTu 121191592
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-01 (Md. Iqbal Talukder)AnTuTu 111014567
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Apple A14 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Timur)AnTuTu 111199214
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (kudryash)AnTuTu 111196958
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-04 (Stelle)AnTuTu 111288870
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (Kirious)AnTuTu 111251875
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (Kirious)AnTuTu 111251875
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 2100 and A14 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X1
3x 2.81 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55		 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Frequency 2900 MHz 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache - 8 MB
Process 5 nanometers 5 nanometers
Transistor count - 11.8 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 6 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP14 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Valhall 2nd gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 854 MHz 1278 MHz
Pipelines 14 4
Shading units 32 64
Total shaders 448 256
FLOPS 765.2 Gigaflops 654.3 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance 26 TOPS 11 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP -
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9		 - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV		 - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Exynos 5300 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7350 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3670 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced December 2020 September 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E9840 APL1W01
Official page Samsung Exynos 2100 official site -
Successor - Samsung Exynos 2500 - Apple A19 Pro

Cast your vote

So, which SoC would you choose?
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2223 (38.6%)
Total votes: 5759

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Comments

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Aadii AnwaR December 22, 2023 at 01:28 AM
When discussing the A14 Bionic and Exynos 2100, we can't ignore the price of both phones. The A14 Bionic is priced higher than the Exynos 2100. Within the same price range, the Exynos 2100 offers better value-for-money than the A14 Bionic. On the other hand, the Snapdragon 888, revered by many as a reliable choice, tends to drop frames when it heats up, making the Exynos 2100 a better option.
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ok. February 4, 2021 at 03:36 PM
Exynos 2100 and A14 are both the best.
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Anime February 26, 2021 at 01:29 PM
You are not a hater that's the kind of person we need to make YouTube channel
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DungeonMaster February 1, 2021 at 12:24 AM
Now IPones have 0 advantage against other phones. [Officially IPhone is crap]
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Nou February 6, 2021 at 04:29 AM
Nah Iphones are still one of the fastest chip in a smartphone
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Dumb ass February 7, 2021 at 08:20 AM
Agreed "on paper" But not in daily life usage πŸ˜‚
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Teddy February 16, 2021 at 09:40 PM
Dumb ass, Your name is very fitting, these on paper results you are refusing to are always screwed towards android devices as it runs it’s own engine to test the devices and iPhone rely on the extensive optimization that is in its operating system, regardless of its on paper results the iPhone will always be faster as long as Samsung continues to use android...
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you are wrong February 19, 2021 at 11:49 PM
Nou, exynos is faster than Apple A14
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Jeff February 21, 2021 at 01:23 PM
Make no mistake, the A14 is still the fastest by quite a long shot. And I'm a HUGE android fan, but facts are facts
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Lufdhamsda March 11, 2021 at 12:02 PM
Well yes. Its called the Apple ecosystem. If youΒ΄re a designer, web developer or creator the apple ecosystem is the best choice for you (if you can affort it).
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You are wrrong April 9, 2021 at 05:02 AM
Jeff , No mistake, 2100 are the fastest chip in the world, false android fan
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Nou April 23, 2021 at 02:51 PM
You are wrrong, *You are wrrong*, The A14 is faster. The anttu is better on Exynos as it is more optimised for android than iOS
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Nah June 26, 2021 at 01:08 PM
you are wrong, Exynos and A14 run different Operating systems
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Hello June 30, 2021 at 07:44 AM
you are wrong, Bro actually you are right but samsung own software kills it greater hardware due to thermal throttling the antutu score reduces on 3rd round and also samsung s21 will be hottest phone(temperature 🀣) but on other hand iphone 12 score remains unchanged it might get little warm but score either drops by 0.5% or sometimes it increases that's ios 14 for one ui 3.0 and also gaming wise a14 chip is best and beast because of stability in frame rate note I am a samsung user (exynos 9825)
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Shael December 22, 2021 at 07:52 PM
You are wrrong, Yes I agree Samsung is better than iPhones
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IamMoron January 22, 2021 at 09:17 PM
Everyone’s picking the Exynos chip. The only reason theyre doing that is because they can’t accept that Apple has better performance and all the Samsung fanboys are getting so triggered rn πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
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Abel January 23, 2021 at 02:41 PM
Nah, you're just mad people aren't fanboying as much over Apple as you are.
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lol February 1, 2021 at 06:41 AM
Abel, apple is literally faster in video rendering by like 3x
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Idk February 1, 2021 at 03:18 PM
IamMoron I know right, the A14 is much ahead
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Leo February 5, 2021 at 08:37 AM
lol, Do you use video rendering?
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Yash February 10, 2021 at 08:23 PM
Normally Everyone want to choose A14 and Exynos 2100, but legendary will choose Snapdragon 888....;-) This is the father of Chipset in 2021.
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Asura March 4, 2021 at 09:42 AM
Yash, Snapdgragon 888 is. better...and the power optimisation is better than Exynos 2100
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Hello April 14, 2021 at 12:33 PM
Abel, Bro, you genuinely envy the A14 Bionic's efficiency and performance
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Milad June 21, 2021 at 10:30 AM
Yash, At the same temperature, Exynos destroys Snapdragon
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