Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Samsung Exynos 990
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 44GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2730MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+209%
2186467
Samsung Exynos 990
707030
CPU
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Architecture
2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
3200 MHz
Frequency
2730 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
2.75 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
0
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Adreno 825
GPU name
Mali-G77 MP11
1150 MHz
GPU frequency
800 MHz
-
Execution units
11
-
Shading units
64
24
Max size
16
-
FLOPS
1.126 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR5
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
76.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
44 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
UFS 4.0
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
3840 x 2400
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 25MP
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Exynos 5123
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 4200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7350 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 3670 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
6.0
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Apr 2025
Announced
Oct 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8735
Model number
S5E9830
