Exynos 7880 vs Snapdragon 450
We compared two 8-core processors: Samsung Exynos 7880 (with Mali-T830 MP3 graphics) and Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 (Adreno 506). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Samsung Exynos 7880
- Supports 121% higher memory bandwidth (16.5 against 7.46 GB/s)
- Higher GPU frequency (~46%)
- Shows better (up to 21%) AnTuTu 8 score – 104K vs 86K
- 6% higher CPU clock speed (1900 vs 1800 MHz)
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
- Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Exynos
- Performs 75% better in floating-point computations
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 39513 | 38553 |
| GPU | 18567 | 9140 |
| Memory | 25235 | 25705 |
| UX | 21853 | 12027 |
| Total score | 104839 | 86594 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 66.05 Mpixels/s | 66.4 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 8.32 images/s | 8.97 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 19 words/s | 18.6 words/s |
| Machine learning | 12.9 images/s | 11.7 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 5.36 images/s | 5.27 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.22 Mnodes/s | 1.26 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 331.2 Krows/s | 317.5 Krows/s |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 7880 and Snapdragon 450CPU
| Architecture | 8x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53 | 8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Frequency | 1900 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 14 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | 2 billion |
| TDP | 4 W | 3 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-T830 MP3 | Adreno 506 |
| Architecture | Midgard | Adreno 500 |
| GPU frequency | 950 MHz | 600-650 MHz |
| Execution units | 3 | 1 |
| Shading units | 16 | 96 |
| FLOPS | 71 Gigaflops | 124 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 11 | 11.1 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR3 |
| Memory frequency | 1033 MHz | 933 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 1x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 16.5 Gbit/s | 7.46 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | Hexagon 546 |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 1920 x 1200 | 1920 x 1200 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 16MP, 2x 8MP | 1x 21MP, 2x 13MP |
| Video capture | 1K at 60FPS | 1K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 1080p at 60FPS | 1080p at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | X9 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 7 | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 300 Mbps | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 100 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS |
Info
| Announced | January 2017 | June 2017 |
| Class | Low end | Low end |
| Model number | - | SDM450 |
| Official page | Samsung Exynos 7880 official site | Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 official site |
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