Samsung Exynos 5250 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 5250 Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 3

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  1.70 GHz 1.40 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.70 GHz 1.40 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
  ARM Mali-T604 MP4 Qualcomm Adreno 505
• GPU frequency
  0.53 GHz 0.45 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.53 GHz 0.45 GHz
• Execution units
  4 0
• Shader
  64 48
• Max. displays
  1 0
• Generation
  Midgard 1 5
• Technology
  32nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2015

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 and Samsung Exynos 5250. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-800 LPDDR3-800
• Memory channels
  0 1
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 5250 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 5250 and Samsung Exynos 5250, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 Cortex-A53
• Technology
  32 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2011 Q2/2016
• Part Number
  -- MSM8937