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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Samsung Exynos 7880

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs. 8 cores 1900MHz Samsung Exynos 7880 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.0912 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 1900MHz)
Samsung Exynos 7880 Advantages
Lower TDP (4W vs 11W)
Released 1 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +65%
260148
Samsung Exynos 7880
157663
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +87%
323
Samsung Exynos 7880
172
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +26%
827
Samsung Exynos 7880
654
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +250%
319
Samsung Exynos 7880
91

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
Architecture
8x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
2150 MHz
Frequency
1900 MHz
4
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
1 MB
L2 cache
-
14 nm
Process
14 nm
2
Transistor count
2
11 W
TDP
4 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP3
624 MHz
GPU frequency
950 MHz
1
Execution units
3
256
Shading units
16
8
Max size
4
0.3194 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0912 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
11
DirectX version
11

Memory

LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4
1866 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
29.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
12.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680
Neural processor (NPU)
No
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2560 x 1440
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
Max camera resolution
1x 22MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
X12
Modem
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 100 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.1
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015
Announced
Jan 2017
Flagship
Class
Low end
MSM8996
Model number
-
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