Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Samsung Exynos 8890. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Samsung Exynos 8890
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Samsung Exynos
• Generation
  3 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
  2x Kryo 4x Exynos M1 (Mangoos)
• B-Core
  2x Kryo 4x Cortex-A53
• Base Frequency
  1.6 GHz 1.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.15 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.15 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 2.3 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
  11,1 11
• Execution units
  0 12
• Generation
  5 Midgard 4
• GPU Frequency
  620 MHz 650 MHz
• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 530 ARM Mali-T880 MP12
• GPU Turbo
  620 MHz 650 MHz
• Max. displays
  0 2
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2016
• Shader
  256 192
• 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 Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No
• 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 8890 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  4 0
• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Samsung Exynos 8890 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 820 and Samsung Exynos 8890, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kryo Exynos M1 / Cortex-A53
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  - 2.00 MB
• Part Number
  MSM8996 -
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q1/2016
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None None