Here Samsung seems to have taken note of the scheduler slowness that has plagued the last 3 generations of Samsung SoCs. 1 x 2.84GHz & 3 x 2.42GHz & 4 x 1.8GHz vs 4 x 2.3 & 4 x 1.7GHz
2 x 2.7GHz & 4 x 2.4GHz & 2 x 1.95GHz vs 1 x 2.84 & 3 x 2.42 & 4 x 1.8GHz The new DSP incorporates a neural processing unit (NPU) with dedicated Tensor-cores that can execute up to 7 trillion operations per second in conjunction with the CPU and GPU.
The SoC is produced at Samsung in the new 10nm LPP process (the Exynos 8898 still used the 10nm LPE process) that should also help with some of the performance gains.The integrated LTE modem supports LTE-Advanced Pro Cat.20 (8CA 2 Gbps download, 3CA 316 Mbps upload). Here it’s clearer that the difference is due to new improved scheduler reactivity as the workload isn’t necessarily throughput limited. Moreover, the Adreno 640 has 50% more compute units (ALUs) than the Adreno 630, while Qualcomm claims that it should be 20% faster than its predecessor. Both phones were set in performance mode and were running firmware as sampled by Samsung. The Wi-Fi modem can utilise the 60 GHz mmWave band for up to 10 Gbit/s internet speeds.The built-in memory controller supports up to 16 GB LPDDR4x RAM (4 x 16-bit). The video engine now also supports 10 bit videos (as before 4k120 H.265/HEVC, H.264 and VP9 de- and encoding). The Hexagon 690 DSP has undergone the most revisions of that which Qualcomm has integrated into the Snapdragon 855. In short, the Snapdragon 855 should be three times faster than the Snapdragon 845 and two times faster than the Kirin 980 SoC.Qualcomm has also improved the integrated Wi-Fi modem, which is Wi-Fi 6-ready, has 8x8 Sounding and supports up to 802.11 ay Wi-Fi. Why is Samsung Exynos 9820 better than Qualcomm Snapdragon 855? The Snapdragon 855 Galaxy S10 falls in line with the QRD’s performance, which is excellent.It’s to be noted that the comparisons I’m making today are all on the new Android 9 firmwares – I don’t have updated figures for the Exynos S9 or the Snapdragon Note9, but have the latest numbers on the Snapdragon S9 and Exynos Note9, which should be identical to their sister series' counter-parts.In PCMark’s Web Browsing test, the new Galaxy S10s both perform well. Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size than the Snapdragon 855. Samsung and Qualcomm are leading the industry here with 2Gbps LTE chips sporting mass carrier aggregation technologies, which should offer connectivity improvements at the cell edge and in dense areas over t… The continued performance detriment to the Snapdragon and Kirin chipsets however still points our that Samsung’s APIs still aren’t as well optimised.Switching over to a browser benchmark, the new Galaxy S10s both perform almost identically. So although the Exynos’ Mali-G76 MP12 gives the Adreno 640 a run for its money in a quick test, the Snapdragon 855 will offer much better performance sustained over a …