Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 vs Samsung Exynos 9820. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Samsung Exynos
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 Samsung Exynos 9820
• 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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Kryo 470 Gold 2x Exynos M4
• B-Core
  6x Kryo 470 Silver 2x Cortex-A75
• C-Core
  -- 4x Cortex-A55
• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.90 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.20 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  2.20 GHz 2.70 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 618 ARM Mali-G76 MP12
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 0.70 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  0 12
• Shader
  128 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  6 Bifrost 3
• Direct X
  12.1 12
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q3/2018

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)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 9820 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 730. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1866 LPDDR4X-1866
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 12 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 and Samsung Exynos 9820 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 730, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.50 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo 470 Gold/475 Silver Exynos M4/Cortex-A75/-A55
• Technology
  8 nm 8 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q1/2019
• Part Number
  SM7150-AA --