Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 vs Samsung Exynos 7885. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Samsung Exynos 7872/7884/7885/7904
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Samsung Exynos
• Generation
  5 2
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Kryo 260 Gold 2x Cortex-A73
• B-Core
  4x Kryo 260 Silver 6x Cortex-A53
• Base Frequency
  1.84 GHz 1.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.2 GHz 2.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  1.84 GHz 2.2 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11 11
• Execution units
  0 2
• Generation
  5 Bifrost 1
• GPU Frequency
  600 MHz 1100 MHz
• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 512 ARM Mali-G71 MP2
• GPU Turbo
  600 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  0 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2016
• Shader
  128 32
• Technology
  14 nm 16 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 7885 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 660. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 6 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 and Samsung Exynos 7885 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 and Samsung Exynos 7885, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kryo 260 Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  - 2.00 MB
• Part Number
  SDM660 -
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q1/2018
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None None