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Exynos 8890 vs A10 Fusion

Exynos 8890
VS
A10 Fusion
Exynos 8890
A10 Fusion

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 8890 (Mali-T880 MP12) with the newer 4-core Apple A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) 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 (3)

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 8890
  • Has 4 more cores
  • Supports 80% higher memory bandwidth (26.82 against 14.9 GB/s)
  • Performs 31% better in floating-point computations
  • Has a smaller size transistor (14 versus 16 nm)
  • Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Apple A10 Fusion
  • Shows better (up to 25%) AnTuTu 11 score – 516K vs 413K

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Exynos 8890
vs
A10 Fusion

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Exynos 8890
413736
A10 Fusion +25%
516981
CPU 154274 202669
GPU 45659 63274
Memory 112058 84317
UX 101745 166721
Total score 413736 516981
Samples [4 tests] Less than 3
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Exynos 8890
413
A10 Fusion +114%
882
Multi-Core Score
Exynos 8890
1102
A10 Fusion +35%
1484
Asset compression 60.6 MB/sec 57.7 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 37 pages/sec 38.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 35.6 Mpixels/sec 44.8 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 11.3 images/sec 14.2 images/sec
HDR 41.1 Mpixels/sec 56.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 1.96 images/sec 4.38 images/sec
Photo processing 8.37 images/sec 13.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.93 Mpixels/sec 1.7 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 4 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Exynos 8890
1139
A10 Fusion +282%
4352
Background blur 1.12 images/sec 11 images/sec
Face detection 0.55 images/sec 9.32 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.06 Gpixels/sec 0.4 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.02 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 4.14 Gpixels/sec 10.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 147.9 FPS 415.5 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 3 tests 2 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 Wild Life Extreme
Score - 693
Stability - 85%
Graphics test - 4 FPS

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 8890
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-03 (Zeroshka)AnTuTu 11413736
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-01 (ДСнис)AnTuTu 11418077
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-16 (Youssef)AnTuTu 11397832
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-12 (JJ)Geekbench 6 GPU606
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-12 (JJ)Geekbench 6 CPU307 / 1016
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Apple A10 Fusion
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-23 (TeknoPiri)AnTuTu 11497446
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-15 (hellz1)Geekbench 6 GPU4352
πŸ“˜ 2024-02-21 (Cap1bara_tech)Geekbench 6 CPU882 / 1484
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 8890 and A10 Fusion

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53		 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Cores 8 4
Frequency 2300 MHz 2340 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 384 KB 64 KB
L2 cache 2 MB 3 MB
L3 cache - 4 MB
Process 14 nanometers 16 nanometers
Transistor count 2 billion 3.3 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 5 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-T880 MP12 PowerVR GT7600
Architecture Midgard 4th gen PowerVR Series7XT (Rogue)
GPU frequency 650 MHz 650 MHz
Pipelines 12 6
Shading units 21 32
Total shaders 252 192
FLOPS 327.6 Gigaflops 249.6 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
OpenCL version 1.2 1.2

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) No No

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR4
Memory frequency 1800 MHz 1333 MHz
Bus 2x 32 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 26.82 Gb/s 14.9 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2400 2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution 1x 24MP, 2x 12MP 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9		 - H.264
- H.265
- VC-1
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV		 - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem - Qualcomm MDM9645M
4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 12
5G support No No
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 100 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 4.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced November 2015 September 2016
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SGA8890A APL1W24
Official page Samsung Exynos 8890 official site -
Successor - Samsung Exynos 2500 - Apple A19 Pro

Cast your vote

So, which SoC would you choose?
90 (66.7%)
45 (33.3%)
Total votes: 135

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Tera47 August 2, 2026 at 02:28 PM
I have an iPhone 7 (Apple A10), an iPad 2018 (A10) and a Galaxy S7 (Exynos 8890). A10 starts to crash games constantly when it gets hot on both devices, while Exynos 8890 is more stable and run games without crashing (even though its not as smooth as Apple A10 before throttling).
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Garrett Raymond September 10, 2025 at 04:14 PM
People saying the 8890 chip is better than the A10 are clearly just fanboys. The A10 blows it out of the water. The gflops are misleading because graphics benchmarks all show the A10 outperforming the Exynos 8890
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A10 is a god, Exynos is such July 18, 2020 at 11:55 AM
A10 is a god, Exynos can never beat Apple, hahahaha
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