Exynos 7880 vs Snapdragon 820
We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 7880 (Mali-T830 MP3) with the older 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (Adreno 530) SoC. 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
- Has 4 more cores
- Announced 1-year and 2-months later
- Higher GPU frequency (~52%)
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
- Performs 7x better in floating-point computations
- Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Exynos
- Supports 81% higher memory bandwidth (29.8 against 16.5 GB/s)
- Shows significantly better (up to 58%) AnTuTu 8 score – 166K vs 104K
- 13% higher CPU clock speed (2150 vs 1900 MHz)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 39513 | 63233 |
| GPU | 18567 | 56800 |
| Memory | 25235 | 26215 |
| UX | 21853 | 23240 |
| Total score | 104839 | 166085 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 66.05 Mpixels/s | 48 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 8.32 images/s | 8.36 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 19 words/s | 19.45 words/s |
| Machine learning | 12.9 images/s | 17 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 5.36 images/s | 10.75 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.22 Mnodes/s | 0.68 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 331.2 Krows/s | 231.4 Krows/s |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 7880 and Snapdragon 820CPU
| Architecture | 8x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53 | 2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo 2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo |
| Cores | 8 | 4 |
| Frequency | 1900 MHz | 2150 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 14 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | 2 billion |
| TDP | 4 W | 11 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-T830 MP3 | Adreno 530 |
| Architecture | Midgard | Adreno 500 |
| GPU frequency | 950 MHz | 624 MHz |
| Execution units | 3 | 2 |
| Shading units | 16 | 256 |
| FLOPS | 71 Gigaflops | 498 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 11 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1033 MHz | 1866 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 16.5 Gbit/s | 29.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | Hexagon 680 |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 |
| Max display resolution | 1920 x 1200 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 16MP, 2x 8MP | 1x 28MP |
| Video capture | 1K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 1080p at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | X12 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 7 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 300 Mbps | Up to 600 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 | November 2015 |
| Class | Low end | Flagship |
| Model number | - | MSM8996 |
| Official page | Samsung Exynos 7880 official site | Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 official site |
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