Samsung Exynos 7872 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 808. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 7872/7884/7885/7904 Qualcomm Snapdragon 808/810
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 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
  6 / 6 6 / 6
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Cortex-A73 2x Cortex-A57
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 4x Cortex-A53
• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 1.44 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.00 GHz 1.82 GHz
• Turbo (6 Cores)
  2.00 GHz 1.82 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-G71 MP1 Qualcomm Adreno 418
• GPU frequency
  0.95 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.95 GHz 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  1 0
• Shader
  16 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  1 0
• Generation
  Bifrost 1 4
• Direct X
  11 11
• Technology
  16 nm 20 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2014

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and Samsung Exynos 7872. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-933 LPDDR3-933
• Memory channels
  0 2
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 7872 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 7872 and Samsung Exynos 7872, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 Cortex-A57 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  14 nm 20 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q3/2014
• Part Number
  -- MSM8992