Samsung Exynos 8890 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 8890 Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
• 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 4 / 4
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  4x Exynos M1 (Mangoos) 2x Kryo
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 2x Kryo
• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 1.60 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.60 GHz 2.40 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-T880 MP12 Qualcomm Adreno 530
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 0.62 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.65 GHz 0.62 GHz
• Execution units
  12 0
• Shader
  192 256
• Max. displays
  2 0
• Generation
  Midgard 4 5
• Direct X
  11 11,1
• Technology
  16 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q4/2015

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 and Samsung Exynos 8890. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866
• Memory channels
  0 4
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 8890 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 8890 and Samsung Exynos 8890, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Exynos M1 / Cortex-A53 Kryo
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2016
• Part Number
  -- MSM8996 Pro-AB