Exynos 2100 vs Snapdragon 855

We compared two 8-core processors: Samsung Exynos 2100 (with Mali-G78 MP14 graphics) and Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (Adreno 640). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

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
  • Higher GPU frequency (~46%)
  • Supports 50% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 34.13 GB/s)
  • Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 7 nm)
  • Shows better (up to 29%) AnTuTu 11 score – 1065K vs 824K
  • Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
  • Performs 17% better in floating-point computations

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
1065369
CPU 373598 314517
GPU 156133 125449
Memory 227441 150134
UX 308197 234413
Total score 1065369 824513
Samples [40 tests] [39 tests]

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
1435
Multi-Core Score
3555
Asset compression 162 MB/sec 126.8 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 104 pages/sec 74.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 135.5 Mpixels/sec 88 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 69.2 images/sec 57.7 images/sec
HDR 113 Mpixels/sec 89.3 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 11.9 images/sec 9.07 images/sec
Photo processing 35.2 images/sec 20.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.67 Mpixels/sec 4.06 Mpixels/sec
Samples 25 tests 29 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Exynos 2100 +150%
6754
Background blur 9.88 images/sec 4.31 images/sec
Face detection 5.1 images/sec 1.84 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.29 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.37 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 21.5 Gpixels/sec 8.72 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 1290.7 FPS 444 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Samples 17 tests 19 tests

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 Wild Life Extreme
Exynos 2100 +105%
1800
Score 1800 876
Stability 64% 86%
Graphics test 10 FPS 5 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
13533
Web score 13238 8813
Video editing score 7092 5956
Data manipulation score 10433 8239
Photo editing score 29658 22485
Writing score 15614 13084
Phones tested Less than 3 8 models

Gaming

Table of average FPS and graphics settings in mobile games
PUBG Mobile - 58 FPS
[Ultra]
Call of Duty: Mobile - 56 FPS
[Ultra]
Fortnite - 28 FPS
[Ultra]
Shadowgun Legends - 51 FPS
[Ultra]
World of Tanks Blitz - 59 FPS
[Ultra]
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang - 57 FPS
[Ultra]
Device - Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro
1080 x 2340
We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.

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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-02 (Pon)AnTuTu 121038764
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (Stanley)AnTuTu 12969794
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-12 (Stanley)AnTuTu 11847934
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-06 (pakasraka)AnTuTu 11763477
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-23 (long tran)Geekbench 6 GPU3882

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 855

CPU

Architecture 1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X1
3x 2.81 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55
1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Cores 8 8
Frequency 2900 MHz 2840 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache - 512 KB
L2 cache - 1 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 5 nanometers 7 nanometers
Transistor count - 6.7 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 6 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP14 Adreno 640
Architecture Valhall 2nd gen Adreno 600
GPU frequency 854 MHz 585 MHz
Pipelines 14 3
Shading units 32 256
Total shaders 448 768
FLOPS 765.2 Gigaflops 898.5 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version - 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 690
NPU theoretical performance 26 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 34.13 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Exynos 5300 X24 LTE, X50 5G
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7350 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3670 Mbps Up to 1240 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced December 2020 December 2018
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E9840 SM8150
Official page Samsung Exynos 2100 official site Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 official site
Successor - Samsung Exynos 2500 - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

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Khoa3656 June 15, 2025 at 08:44 PM
why everyone choose exynos chip, about the performance? nah fk it out man, they have made a good cpu and score are complete high but in a stability and gpu performance, cpu celcius are suck and if playing you are playing high 3A games like Genshin Impact celcius at 48Β°C completely hot when holding it and using phone cooler is 40 - 42Β°C, CarX Street locked on 30 fps and sometimes at 50Β°C celcius and if you are going to buy s21, s21 ultra, s21 fe exynos version when you only playing games not using camera to take a photo or another feature from samsung so don't buy it, it not worth it (i was using a s21 ultra to comment this so this is my experient when i using it).
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