Samsung Exynos 850 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 800 Qualcomm Snapdragon 865/870
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 7

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 hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 1.80 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.20 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  No turbo 2.42 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-G52 MP1 Qualcomm Adreno 650
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz 0.25 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.67 GHz
• Execution units
  1 2
• Shader
  16 512
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  Bifrost 2 6
• Technology
  16 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q4/2019

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 and Samsung Exynos 850. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5500
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• Memory channels
  0 4
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 850 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 850 and Samsung Exynos 850, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55 Kryo 585
• Technology
  8 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2021
• Part Number
  S5E3830 SM8250-AC