Depending on your region, you either get the Snapdragon 855 or the Exynos 9825-equipped version. We had the chance to review the latter, which is a slightly improved version of the Exynos 9820 chipset found in the Galaxy S10+. The improvements translate into higher clock speeds on some of the cores and a tad smaller manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm in favor of the newer one version). The 7nm node also uses the new LPP EUV manufacturing process promising small energy efficiency gains.
Anyway, the Exynos 9825 sports the same two Mongoose M4 cores clocked at 2.73GHz as its predecessor while the 2x medium Cortex-A75 cores tick at 2.40GHz - 90MHz higher clock speeds. The smallest 4x Cortex-A55 cores remain unchanged at 1.95GHz.
The GPU has also been tweaked but Samsung doesn't disclose clock speeds. We know for a fact that the Mali G76 MP12 GPU on the Exynos 9820 is clocked at 702MHz so the newer variant should go a bit higher, which explains the higher scores in some of the graphically-intensive tests.
Memory-wise, the Note10+ is offered in a great hardware configuration as even in its most basic version it comes with 256GB storage and 12GB of RAM. The other storage version is 512GB. In both cases, we're looking at UFS 3.0 flash storage as opposed to the slower UFS 2.1 found on the S10+.
In the multi-core test, the Exynos 9825 loses to the Snapdragon 855. Of course, we didn't expect any major gains from the slightly overclocked medium cores (just 90MHz), so there are no surprises here. In our initial benchmark testing, we strangely observed lower-than-expected numbers until several attempts later. The final resuts were more in line with the performance bumps of the Exynos 9825.
Higher is better
As one would expect, the big Mongoose M4 cores provide the best single-core performance in the Android world and gets pretty close to Apple's A12 Bionic chip.
Higher is better
Higher is better
And if we add the iPhone's A12 Bionic into the mix, there's no competition.
Higher is better
As we already pointed out, when it comes to GPU performance, the Exynos 9825 goes ahead of its predecessor and Huawei's Kirin 980 but falls short against Qualcomm's Adreno 640 GPU.
Higher is better
Higher is better
Higher is better
Higher is better
Aside from the synthetic benchmark tests, the phone runs great as every flagship should. We didn't notice any major hiccups, hangs, freezes or slowdowns. The chipset is still suited to handle pretty much everything you throw at it.
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