Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE vs Samsung Exynos 8890. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Samsung Exynos
• Generation
  5 2
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Samsung Exynos 8890

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.84 GHz 1.60 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.20 GHz 2.60 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  1.84 GHz 2.30 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)

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

• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 512 ARM Mali-T880 MP12
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.60 GHz 0.65 GHz
• Execution units
  0 12
• Shader
  128 192
• Max. displays
  0 2
• Generation
  5 Midgard 4
• Technology
  14 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2016

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 8890 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 0

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE and Samsung Exynos 8890 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE and Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo 260 Exynos M1 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q1/2016
• Part Number
  SDA660 --