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Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2 vs Samsung Exynos 850

Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2 is a mid-range ARMv8-based SoC largely for Android tablets and smartphones. Announced in February 2014, the S616 is one of the first 64-bit capable SoCs from Qualcomm. In addition to 8 Cortex-A53 CPU cores at up to 1.7 GHz (power saving cluster max. 1.2 GHz), the SoC integrates an Adreno 405 GPU with a 2x 32-bit memory controller (LPDDR3-1600, 12.8 GB/s) and supports Wi-Fi (802.11ac), Bluetooth 4.0, UMTS, and LTE.

CPU

The Cortex-A53 is the successor to the very popular Cortex-A7 design. In addition to the new 64-bit capable ARMv8 ISA, the cores offer a variety of other improvements such as better branch prediction. This leads to a significantly higher performance per clock, which is even above the older Cortex-A9.

The eight cores of the Snapdragon 616 are divided into two quad-core clusters, each optimized for a different operating point. While one cluster can clock up to 1.7 GHz to handle more demanding applications, the other cluster is limited to a maximum of 1.2 GHz for energy-saving purposes. All eight cores can be active at the same time, although most applications aren't parallelized to support 8 cores efficiently.

Overall, the Snapdragon 615 offers a performance similar to that of the older Snapdragon 600 (Krait architecture).

GPU

Another new feature is the integrated graphics unit named Adreno 405 (550 MHz most likely). The Adreno 400 series has been substantially redesigned and supports DirectX 11.2 (FL 11_1) including hardware tessellation, OpenGL ES 3.1, and OpenCL 1.2. Furthermore, the performance has been significantly improved, which is now similar to the Adreno 320 and PowerVR G6200.

Features

The Snapdragon 616 offers numerous wireless technologies such as Bluetooth 4.0 and WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac as well as a Multi-SIM cellular modem supporting LTE cat. 4 (up to 150 Mbps), WCDMA, CDMA, EV-DO, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE.

The SoC can encode and decode 1080p videos using dedicated hardware and stream content to displays with up to 2560 x 2048 pixels. A large number of video codecs including H.265 (playback only) will be supported. The camera ISP can handle sensors with up to 21 MP.

Power Consumption

The Snapdragon 616 is manufactured by TSMC in a 28 nm LP process. According to the specifications, we expect a medium or medium-high power consumption for use in medium-sized or larger smartphones and tablets.

Samsung Exynos 850

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The Samsung Exynos 850 is a System on a Chip (SoC) for entry level smartphones (Android based). It was announced in May 2020 and the first device with it is the Samsung Galaxy A21s. The chip integrates a processor with 8 small ARM Cortex-A55 cores that clock with up to 2 GHz (octa core).

The multi threaded performance is quite good thanks to 8 cores, the single threaded performance suffers a bit from the small A55 cores, although the clock rate of up to 2 GHz can help a bit.

Furthermore, the SoC integrates a LTE modem (Cat.7 2CA up to 300 MBit/s download, Cat.13 2CA 150 MBit/s upload), a Wi-fi 5 modem (802.11ac), LPPDDR4x memory controller, eMMC 5.1 flash memory controller and a video engine for FHD 60fps encoding and decoding (H.265, H.264, VP9).

It is manufactured in the modern 8nm LPP process at Samsung and should offer a good power efficiency and therefore it is also suited for small smartphones.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2Samsung Exynos 850
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonSamsung
CodenameCortex-A53Cortex-A55
Series: Cortex-A55
Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 compare1.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 compare2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM8952 compare1.5 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2 « 1.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 compare1.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936 compare1.7 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 compare1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937) compare1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM8929 compare1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (MSM8917) compare1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 compare1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 APQ8016 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Samsung Exynos 850 « - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A55
Allwinner A523 compare0.48 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores1 MB L3 Cortex-A55
UNISOC SC9863A compare1.2 - 1.6 GHz8 / 8 cores512 KB L3 Cortex-A55
Clock1700 MHz <=2000 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Technology28 nm8 nm
FeaturesAdreno 405 GPU, WLAN 802.11ac (1x1), Bluetooth 4.0, LTE Cat. 4, FM, GNSS, 1x 32 Bit LPDDR3-1600 Memory ControllerLTE Cat.7 / Cat.13, LPDDR4x RAM, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5), 48 MP Camera, eMMC 5.1, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 405 ( - 550 MHz)ARM Mali-G52 MP1
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.comwww.samsung.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - Geekbench 5.5, PCM Work, Sling Shot Physics, Antutu v8 CPU - Exynos 850
0.4 pt (29%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 7582     avg: 8157     median: 8343 (7%)     max: 8520 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 7654     avg: 8193     median: 8445 (7%)     max: 8548 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 7550     avg: 8116     median: 8174 (7%)     max: 8764 Points
18816 Points (16%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 2042     avg: 2108     median: 2109 (25%)     max: 2168 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 2015     avg: 2091     median: 2079 (24%)     max: 2190 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 119     avg: 167.3     median: 178 (8%)     max: 183 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 519     avg: 900     median: 1042 (2%)     max: 1087 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
987 Points (10%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
4986 Points (6%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2792     avg: 2934     median: 2938 (5%)     max: 3047 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 613     avg: 672     median: 688 (10%)     max: 698 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 289.8     avg: 305.8     median: 313.5 (11%)     max: 314.1 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 185.9     avg: 214.6     median: 221.2 (22%)     max: 236.8 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 12077     avg: 13354     median: 12510 (15%)     max: 15263 ms
min: 8326.9     avg: 8842     median: 8823 (10%)     max: 9397 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 1258     avg: 1579     median: 1299 (14%)     max: 2180 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
1218 ms (12%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 2950     avg: 3283     median: 3155 (3%)     max: 3647 Points
min: 4875     avg: 5426     median: 5454.5 (5%)     max: 5904 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
25 Points (7%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 35     avg: 36.8     median: 36.5 (8%)     max: 39 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
1130 Points (30%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
1816 Points (40%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
2620 Points (35%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
22393 points (52%)
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
36520 Points (37%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 33335     avg: 35036     median: 35102 (12%)     max: 37152 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
min: 25484     avg: 29469     median: 28792.5 (24%)     max: 34806 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 20787     avg: 28847     median: 28119.5 (23%)     max: 38363 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 20716     avg: 21830     median: 22122.5 (4%)     max: 22360 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 45047     avg: 46029     median: 46132 (17%)     max: 46804 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 119981     avg: 126175     median: 125664 (12%)     max: 133391 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
min: 121238     avg: 133665     median: 133304 (8%)     max: 146815 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
min: 36486     avg: 40832     median: 41451.5 (11%)     max: 43937 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
96167 Points (13%)
10533 Points (1%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 3425     avg: 3584     median: 3558.5 (18%)     max: 3794 Points
min: 6929     avg: 7021     median: 7021 (35%)     max: 7113 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
8331 Points (13%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
min: 4894     avg: 5492     median: 5739 (27%)     max: 6065 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 5433     avg: 5445     median: 5445 (36%)     max: 5457 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
min: 254     avg: 264     median: 264 (10%)     max: 274 Points
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
min: 0     avg: 1.9     median: 2.8 (1%)     max: 3.02 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
min: 0     avg: 1     median: 1.2 (1%)     max: 1.894 Watt

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2 → 100% n=5

Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 850 → 143% n=5

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