Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Samsung Exynos 8895. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Samsung Exynos
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Samsung Exynos 8895
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 2

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  4 / 4 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Kryo 4x Exynos M2 (Mongoose)
• B-Core
  2x Kryo 4x Cortex-A53
• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 1.70 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.15 GHz 2.30 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

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 530 ARM Mali-G71 MP20
• GPU frequency
  0.62 GHz 0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.62 GHz 0.90 GHz
• Execution units
  0 20
• Shader
  256 320
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  0 2
• Generation
  5 Bifrost 1
• Direct X
  11,1 11
• 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
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 8895 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  --
• Memory channels
  4 --
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  --
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Samsung Exynos 8895 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  --
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo Exynos M2 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2017
• Part Number
  MSM8996 --