Samsung Exynos 980 vs Apple A11 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 10nm)
Released 2 years late
Apple A11 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2200MHz)
Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Samsung Exynos 980
+5%
433794
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Samsung Exynos 980
869
Apple A11 Bionic
+26%
1097
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Samsung Exynos 980
1867
Apple A11 Bionic
+26%
2357
FP32 (float)
Samsung Exynos 980
262
Apple A11 Bionic
+56%
409
CPU
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
2200 MHz
Frequency
2390 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
8 nm
Process
10 nm
-
Transistor count
4.3
9 W
TDP
8 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G76 MP5
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
728 MHz
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
5
Execution units
3
36
Shading units
64
8
Max size
4
0.2621 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4093 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
3360 x 1440
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Exynos 5123
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 3550 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 1380 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Sep 2017
Mid range
Class
Flagship
S5E9630
Model number
APL1W72
