Exynos 9611 vs Snapdragon 730

We compared two 8-core processors: Samsung Exynos 9611 (with Mali-G72 MP3 graphics) and Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (Adreno 618). 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 9611
  • Higher GPU frequency (~21%)
  • 5% higher CPU clock speed (2300 vs 2200 MHz)
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 730
  • Performs 5.9x better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 42%) AnTuTu 11 score – 502K vs 355K
  • Has a smaller size transistor (8 versus 10 nm)
  • Supports 16% higher memory bandwidth (14.9 against 12.8 GB/s)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
355351
502844
CPU 146634 220418
GPU 30478 44373
Memory 82437 95755
UX 95802 142298
Total score 355351 502844
Samples [17 tests] [12 tests]

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
1836
Asset compression 69.2 MB/sec 94.5 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 27.4 pages/sec 49 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 30 Mpixels/sec 62.3 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 9.76 images/sec 35.5 images/sec
HDR 38.1 Mpixels/sec 56.2 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 1.54 images/sec 5.65 images/sec
Photo processing 5.84 images/sec 18.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.3 Mpixels/sec 2.73 Mpixels/sec
Samples 13 tests 8 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
1474
Background blur 2.36 images/sec 1.44 images/sec
Face detection 1.43 images/sec 0.62 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.06 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.12 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.06 Gpixels/sec 0.06 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.02 Gpixels/sec 0.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 5.22 Gpixels/sec 3.53 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 145.6 FPS 200 FPS
API Vulkan OpenCL
Samples 9 tests 6 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score - 269
Stability - 98%
Graphics test - 1 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
8234
Web score 5186 6861
Video editing score 5099 5546
Data manipulation score 4791 7006
Photo editing score 10017 15521
Writing score 6916 9110
Phones tested Less than 3 Less than 3

Gaming

Table of average FPS and graphics settings in mobile games
PUBG Mobile 31 FPS
[High]
59 FPS
[Medium]
Call of Duty: Mobile 40 FPS
[Medium]
36 FPS
[Ultra]
Fortnite - 27 FPS
[Medium]
Shadowgun Legends - 35 FPS
[Medium]
World of Tanks Blitz 43 FPS
[Ultra]
59 FPS
[Ultra]
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 38 FPS
[High]
30 FPS
[Ultra]
Device Samsung Galaxy A51
1080 x 2400
Xiaomi Mi9T
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 9611
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-30 (Aginves)AnTuTu357049
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-28 (ROBIZ)AnTuTu331364
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-15 (Somya Lohiya)AnTuTu298360
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-20 (14burgos)AnTuTu393276
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-15 (Robiz)AnTuTu302904
Qualcomm Snapdragon 730
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-03 (Tuqiso)AnTuTu504784
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-02 (Cmvp)))AnTuTu526575
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-22 (Brian)AnTuTu513272
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-21 (Jim.0)AnTuTu520892
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-19 (Fixis)GeekBench GPU1022

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 9611 and Snapdragon 730

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 470 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 470 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 8 8
Frequency 2300 MHz 2200 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
Process 10 nanometers 8 nanometers
Transistor count 3 billion -
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 5 W
Manufacturing Samsung Samsung

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G72 MP3 Adreno 618
Architecture Bifrost 2nd gen Adreno 600
GPU frequency 850 MHz 700 MHz
Pipelines 3 2
Shading units 12 128
Total shaders 36 256
FLOPS 61.2 Gigaflops 358.4 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version - 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Qualcomm Hexagon 688

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1600 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 12.8 Gb/s 14.9 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 3.0
Max display resolution 2560 x 1600 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Shannon 337 X15
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 15
5G support No No
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 800 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced September 2019 April 2019
Class Mid range Mid range
Model number S5E9611 SM7150-AA
Official page Samsung Exynos 9611 official site Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 official site
Successor - Samsung Exynos 1580 - Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G

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Ggigas October 9, 2020 at 12:46 PM
Exynos 9 series is faster, more modern in key hard-wear elements/clock speed, memory, cached memory, graphics and so on. Qualcomm 7 series using arm elements renamed to kryo, gold, silver, cooper, but connectivity of the Snapdragon /radio/ is always ahead of its time...
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cyberbug February 7, 2021 at 02:47 AM
Snapdragon 730 is faster and consumes less energy (8nm vs 9nm) -> 5 watt vs 8 watt - Faster(ipc) & newer arm cores A67/A55 (vs A72/A53 Samsung) - Faster gpu 128shaders/386Gflops (vs 48shaders/259Gflops Samsung) - Better connectivity Cat15/GPS6/Wifi6 (vs Cat12/GPS4/wifi5 Samsung) Of course the 730 is more expensive but it also came out more then 6 moths later. Ggigas is wrong about almost earthing. Except for the memory speed & Connectivity faster memory on Exynos, better Conn on Samsung - Sure the A72 runs at 2.3ghz vs A76 2.2 (but the ipc more then compensates for it) look at geekbench - Sure the Mali runs at 850mhz vs 500mhz for the adreno (but 128 shaders vs 48 more than compensates for it) This together with the 8nm process results in the 730 being a faster and more energy efficient Soc. One thing this site ironically has wrong: the Samsung M51 actually has a Snapdragon 730 not a Exynos 9611 I know this since i have this exact phone (and wanted to compare to the much cheaper M21 and M31/M31s that do contain a Exynos 9611)
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Dushsn November 24, 2021 at 03:44 AM
Exynos 9611 is shit, cortex a73 battery-draining low-performance core, bad g72 mp3 GPU even worse than g52 mc2 on g80, let alone 618.
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