Quick/Comparisons
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's Adreno 840 graphics deliver significantly stronger gaming performance, with a 66-point gap in the gaming hallmark score.
Although the Samsung Exynos 1680 has excellent battery life, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's battery life is still 6 points higher, making it the winner in this use case.
The Samsung Exynos 1680 features a dedicated NPU for AI workloads, which is a notable advantage in this use case, but since the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's AI performance is unavailable, we cannot definitively declare a winner.
99 | CPU Performance | 51 |
96 | Gaming Performance | 30 |
92 | Battery life |
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| TSMC | Manufacturer | Samsung |
| 3 nanometers | Process Node | 4 nanometers |
| 8 | CPU Cores | 8 |
| Adreno 840 | GPU Model | Samsung Xclipse 550 |
| Hexagon | NPU Performance | Yes |
| 3932243 | Apple A19 | 1390055 |
| 1143736 | CPU | 510705 |
| 1439012 | GPU | 374535 |
| 409747 | Memory | 204469 |
| 939748 | UX | 300346 |
| 3932243 | Total score | 1390055 |
| 3607 | Single-Core Score | 1389 |
| 10732 | Multi-Core Score | 4453 |
| 421.8 MB/sec | Asset compression | 212.5 MB/sec |
| 238 pages/sec | HTML 5 Browser | 125.8 pages/sec |
| 286.6 Mpixels/sec | PDF Renderer | 144.7 Mpixels/sec |
| 330.6 images/sec | Image detection | 86.1 images/sec |
| 308.4 Mpixels/sec | HDR | 141.1 Mpixels/sec |
| 40.7 images/sec | Background blur | 18 images/sec |
| 98.7 images/sec | Photo processing | 39.6 images/sec |
| 14.1 Mpixels/sec | Ray tracing | 5.87 Mpixels/sec |
| 41 tests | Samples | Less than 3 |
| 27343 | Compute Score (GPU) | 7924 |
| 51.9 images/sec | Background blur | 13.3 images/sec |
| 24.9 images/sec | Face detection | 6.4 images/sec |
| 0.72 Gpixels/sec | Horizon detection | 0.33 Gpixels/sec |
| 1 Gpixels/sec | Edge detection | 0.46 Gpixels/sec |
| 2.04 Gpixels/sec | Gaussian blur | 0.42 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.36 Gpixels/sec | Feature matching | 0.11 Gpixels/sec |
| 115.4 Gpixels/sec | Stereo matching | 31.6 Gpixels/sec |
| 4390.2 FPS | Particle physics | 958.9 FPS |
| Vulkan | API | Vulkan |
| 26 tests | Samples | Less than 3 |
| 2736 | 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | — |
| 2736 | Score | — |
| 78% | Stability | — |
| 20 FPS | Graphics test | — |
| 12201 | 3DMark Solar Bay | — |
| 12201 | Score | — |
| 46 FPS | Graphics test | — |
| 53 FPS | Section 1 | — |
| 46 FPS | Section 2 | — |
| 39 FPS | Section 3 | — |
| 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime 6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance | Architecture | 1x 2.9 GHz – Cortex-A720 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720 3x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A520 |
| 8 | Cores | 8 |
| 4610 MHz | Frequency | 2900 MHz |
| ARMv9.2-A | Instruction set | ARMv9.2-A |
| 192 KB | L1 cache | — |
| 12 MB | L2 cache | — |
| 3 nanometers | Process | 4 nanometers |
| TSMC | Manufacturing | Samsung |
| LPDDR5X | Memory type | LPDDR5X |
| 5300 MHz | Memory frequency | — |
| 4x 16 Bit | Bus | 2x 16 Bit |
| 84.8 Gb/s | Max bandwidth | — |
| 24 GB | Max size | 12 GB |
| Snapdragon X85 | Modem | — |
| LTE Cat. 24 | 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 |
| Yes | 5G support | Yes |
| Up to 12500 Mbps | Download speed | Up to 5100 Mbps |
| Up to 3700 Mbps | Upload speed | Up to 1280 Mbps |
| 7 | Wi-Fi | 6 |
| 6 | Bluetooth | 6.1 |
| GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
| UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 | Storage type | UFS 3.1, UFS 4.1 |
| 1x 320MP | Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP |
| 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS | Video capture | 4K at 60FPS |
| 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS | Video playback | 4K at 60FPS |
| - H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP8 - VP9 | Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 - VP8 - VP9 |
| - AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV | Audio codecs | - AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
| Hexagon | Neural processor (NPU) | Yes |
| September 2025 | Announced | March 2026 |
| Flagship | Class | Mid range |
| SM8850-AC | Model number | S5E8865 |
| Adreno 840 | GPU name | Samsung Xclipse 550 |
| Adreno 800 | Architecture | RDNA 3 |
| 1200 MHz | GPU frequency | 1200 MHz |
| 3 | Pipelines | 2 |
| 512 | Shading units | 128 |
| 1536 | Total shaders | 256 |
| 3686.4 Gigaflops | FLOPS | 1228.8 Gigaflops |