Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Samsung Exynos 2500

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Samsung Exynos 2500 +981%

2519784

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2342 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

4

Cores

10

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

-

653 MHz

GPU frequency

-

1

Execution units

-

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5T

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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