Samsung's fresh new S10 lineup is once again powered by the best the industry can offer - Snapdragon 855 and Samsung's in-house Exynos 9820 Octa chipset. We already managed to put a Snapdragon 855 phone through its paces in our Xiaomi Mi 9 review, but we were eager to test Samsung's flagship SoC.
And as luck would have it we are currently in possession of the Exynos-powered Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+, so we wasted no time and put them through our benchmark gauntlet.
Anyway, the Exynos 9820 Octa's CPU configuration has two big Mongoose M4 cores clocked at 2.7 GHz. The other two powerful cores are Cortex-A75 ticking at 2.4 GHz while the four power-efficient cores are Cortex-A55 running at 1.9 GHz.
Samsung was able to pull this off thanks to the so-called DinamIQ architecture by ARM. Long story short, the DinamIQ enables different types of cores to run simultaneously, always achieving optimal performance and power efficiency.
The Exynos 9820's GPU is a Mali-G76 MP12 chip capable of some serious number crunching. Samsung also promises additional Unreal Engine game optimization for smoother gameplay.
The chip is based on 8nm LPP node on contrary to Snapdragon 855's 7nm. The two are so close that any differences are bound to come from the different architecture of their elements rather than sheer technological advantages.
Without further ado, here's how the Exynos 9820 fares against the competition and its predecessor.
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Raw CPU performance appears to be pretty much on par with the Snapdragon 855 taking turns to lead in the different benchmarks. But as far as single-core performance goes, well, the huge Mongoose M4 core clocked at 2.7 GHz simply blew away the Qualcomm competitor. The single-core performance is impressive and blows everyone else out of the water, except for Apple's A12 Bionic on the new iPhones.
GPU performance is right up there with the best in the class but it falls short in some tests against the Adreno 640 found in the Snapdragon 855.
So no surprises there - the Exynos 9820 is a beast and with no shortage of performance power. Yet we still need to see how it holds up in everyday use and how optimized it is. Our battery tests will also be an interesting one as it will tell us more about its power efficiency. All of these will be addressed in the full review but in the meantime don't miss our early hands-on look.
outdated..gfx score is better than apple and the cpu scores on apple are marginally better and on day to day usage samsung and apple remain almost the same..personal preference there.
Are you blind???????? On CPU tests it was ok... But on GPU tests it was completely sh*t!!!!!! You can't compare a 700MHz GPU, with a 1100MHz GPU! The difference is day and night... I hate Apple.....but damn their phones have the best perform...
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