Samsung Exynos 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 690. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 8

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
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.70 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.20 GHz 2.00 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  2.20 GHz 1.70 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
  ARM Mali-G76 MP5 Qualcomm Adreno 619L
• GPU frequency
  0.72 GHz 0.95 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.72 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  5 0
• Shader
  80 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 0
• Generation
  Bifrost 3 6
• Technology
  7 nm 8 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2018 Q4/2020

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 and Samsung Exynos 980. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 980 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 980 and Samsung Exynos 980, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55 Kryo 560
• Technology
  8 nm 8 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q4/2020
• Part Number
  -- SM6350