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Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 vs Samsung Exynos 850 vs Allwinner A523

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

► remove from comparison Qualcomm SD 439

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 (SD439) is a lower mainstream SoC for (Android based) smartphones and tablets. Compared to the older Snapdragon 435, the 439 is now manufactured in the current 12nm FinFET process and offers higher clock speeds of 2 GHz of the eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores (compared to 1.4 GHz). Wifi (now ac Wave 2 / Wifi 5) and Bluetooth (v5) were also updated, however the GPU still is the rather slow Adreno 505 and the LTE modem was even downgraded to a X6 with only Cat. 4/5 (max. 150 Mbps download, 75 Mbps upload).

Thanks to the higher maximum clock speed, the performance of the Snapdragon 439 mobile platform can reach the old Snapdragon 625 (also 2 GHz with 8x Cortex-A53). However, there is still a big gap to the SoCs with bigger performance cores.

Samsung Exynos 850

► remove from comparison Samsung Exynos 850

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.

Allwinner A523

► remove from comparison  A523

The Allwinner A523 is a very affordable ARM-based SoC for smartphones and tablets. The eight-core processor presented in 2023 consists of two quad-core clusters, each made up of 4 Cortex-A55 cores.

The faster quad cluster operates at a clock frequency of up to 1.8 GHz and offers 128 KB L2 cache per A55 core, while the second cluster clocks at up to 1.4 GHz and only offers 64 KB L2 cache per core.

In another version of the Allwinner A523, the first quad cluster clocks at up to 2.0 GHz. The ARM Mali-G57 MC1 is used as the graphics unit, which supports OpenGL 3.2, Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0. A XuanTie E906 RISC-V PMU is also integrated.

The Allwinner SoC can control up to 4 GB DDR3/DDR4/LPDDR2/LPDDR3/LPDDR4/LPDDR4X RAM and eMMC 5.1 flash memory. In addition to PCIe 2.1, USB 3.1 Gen. 1 and Gigabit Ethernet are also supported as interfaces. There is also an H264/H265 video decoder (up to 4K at 60 frames per second) and an H264 encoder (up to 4K at 25 frames per second).

The Allwinner A523 is manufactured with a 22 nm structure width.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 439Samsung Exynos 850Allwinner A523
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonSamsung
CodenameCortex-A53Cortex-A55Cortex-A55
Series: Cortex-A55
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6302.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6262.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6252 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 « 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4501.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4292 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM89521.5 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v21.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM89391.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM89361.7 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4351.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937)1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM89291.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (MSM8917)1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM89161.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 APQ80161.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Samsung Exynos 850 « - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A55
Allwinner A5230.48 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores1 MB L3 Cortex-A55
UNISOC SC9863A1.2 - 1.6 GHz8 / 8 cores512 KB L3 Cortex-A55
Samsung Exynos 850 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A55
Allwinner A523 « 0.48 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores1 MB L3 Cortex-A55
UNISOC SC9863A1.2 - 1.6 GHz8 / 8 cores512 KB L3 Cortex-A55
Clock2000 MHz <=2000 MHz480 - 2000 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 88 / 8
4 x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
4 x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
Technology12 nm8 nm22 nm
FeaturesAdreno 505 GPU, 802.11ac Wave 2WLAN, Bluetooth 5.0, X6 LTE Cat 4/5 (150 / 75 Mbps),LTE 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, GalileoH.264 4K25 Encoding, 4K30 decoding, H.265 4K60 decoding, 32 Bit LPDDR4x memory controller, SD 3.0 / eMMC 5.1, Trustzone, Secure Boot, Security ID, USB 3.1, PCIe 2.1, RISC-V 200 MHz
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 505ARM Mali-G52 MP1ARM Mali-G57 MP1
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.comwww.samsung.comwww.allwinnertech.com
L1 Cache512 KB
L2 Cache768 KB
L3 Cache1 MB

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - Geekbench 5.5, PCM Work, Sling Shot Physics, Antutu v8 CPU - SD 439
0.3 pt (23%)
Performance Rating - Geekbench 5.5, PCM Work, Sling Shot Physics, Antutu v8 CPU - Exynos 850
0.4 pt (29%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 12096     avg: 12492     median: 12492.5 (11%)     max: 12809 Points
18816 Points (16%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1500     avg: 1597     median: 1608 (6%)     max: 1657 Points
102%
A523 +
min: 1517     avg: 1645     median: 1645 (6%)     max: 1773 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1516     avg: 1588     median: 1598 (18%)     max: 1618 Points
118%
A523 +
1883 Points (22%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 227     avg: 229     median: 229 (6%)     max: 231 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 852     avg: 853     median: 853 (3%)     max: 854 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
176 Points (7%)
min: 167     avg: 169     median: 169 (7%)     max: 171 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
823 Points (1%)
min: 778     avg: 797     median: 796.5 (1%)     max: 815 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 176     avg: 176.7     median: 177 (1%)     max: 177 Points
97%
1 A523 +
171 Points (1%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 809     avg: 819     median: 812 (3%)     max: 836 Points
74%
1 A523 +
600 Points (2%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 863     avg: 880     median: 877.5 (9%)     max: 903 Points
987 Points (10%)
min: 853     avg: 865     median: 865 (9%)     max: 877 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2987     avg: 3141     median: 3154 (3%)     max: 3267 Points
4986 Points (5%)
min: 2498     avg: 2942     median: 2941.5 (3%)     max: 3385 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 SD 439 +
863 Points (12%)
96%
1 A523 +
827 Points (11%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 SD 439 +
3218 Points (8%)
76%
1 A523 +
2451 Points (6%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 SD 439 +
3636 Points (6%)
90%
1 A523 +
3276 Points (5%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 SD 439 +
792 Points (12%)
122%
1 A523 +
965 Points (14%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 SD 439 +
712 Points (6%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 SD 439 +
1563 Points (14%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 SD 439 +
5986 Points (12%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 SD 439 +
3444 Points (7%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 SD 439 +
3684 Points (10%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 9768     avg: 9963     median: 9952.5 (12%)     max: 10143 ms
min: 8326.9     avg: 8842     median: 8823 (10%)     max: 9397 ms
102%
A523 +
min: 8641.2     avg: 8707     median: 8706.8 (10%)     max: 8772.4 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 4512     avg: 4731     median: 4755.5 (4%)     max: 4958 Points
min: 4875     avg: 5426     median: 5454.5 (5%)     max: 5904 Points
129%
A523 +
min: 5911     avg: 6113     median: 6112.5 (5%)     max: 6314 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
25 Points (7%)
112%
1 A523 +
min: 26     avg: 28     median: 28 (8%)     max: 30 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 32     avg: 35.2     median: 35.5 (7%)     max: 38 Points
min: 35     avg: 36.8     median: 36.5 (8%)     max: 39 Points
115%
A523 +
41 Points (9%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 59539     avg: 60585     median: 60585 (21%)     max: 61631 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 4849     avg: 5390     median: 5051 (16%)     max: 6271 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 19841     avg: 21900     median: 22846 (28%)     max: 23014 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 12224     avg: 12439     median: 12514 (4%)     max: 12579 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 37733     avg: 37810     median: 37769 (23%)     max: 37928 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 75175     avg: 77540     median: 77652 (14%)     max: 79792 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 6969     avg: 12860     median: 13894 (12%)     max: 16684 Points
min: 25484     avg: 29469     median: 28792.5 (24%)     max: 34806 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 27672     avg: 29440     median: 29676.5 (24%)     max: 30734 Points
min: 20787     avg: 28847     median: 28119.5 (23%)     max: 38363 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 9258     avg: 10049     median: 10067 (2%)     max: 10803 Points
min: 20716     avg: 21830     median: 22122.5 (4%)     max: 22360 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 40746     avg: 41220     median: 41221.5 (15%)     max: 41690 Points
min: 45047     avg: 46029     median: 46132 (17%)     max: 46804 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 84645     avg: 93569     median: 95218 (9%)     max: 99193 Points
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
99%
1 A523 +
min: 126757     avg: 131411     median: 131411 (8%)     max: 136065 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
min: 36486     avg: 40832     median: 41451.5 (11%)     max: 43937 Points
91%
1 A523 +
min: 34895     avg: 37521     median: 37521 (10%)     max: 40147 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
105520 Points (14%)
10533 Points (1%)
2085 Points (0%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 2490     avg: 2557     median: 2556.5 (14%)     max: 2623 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 4775     avg: 5213     median: 5212.5 (11%)     max: 5650 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 4412     avg: 4632     median: 4643.5 (30%)     max: 4791 Points
min: 5433     avg: 5445     median: 5445 (36%)     max: 5457 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
1 SD 439 +
min: 5880     avg: 6095     median: 6115 (31%)     max: 6228 Points
min: 6929     avg: 7021     median: 7021 (35%)     max: 7113 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
8331 Points (13%)
84%
1 A523 +
7006 Points (11%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
min: 4894     avg: 5492     median: 5739 (27%)     max: 6065 Points
96%
1 A523 +
min: 5224     avg: 5487     median: 5486.5 (25%)     max: 5749 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
100%
1 A523 +
8.6 MB/s (6%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
100%
1 A523 +
87.8 MB/s (3%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
100%
1 A523 +
13 MB/s (16%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
100%
1 A523 +
127.1 MB/s (4%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
min: 254     avg: 264     median: 264 (10%)     max: 274 Points
86%
1 A523 +
227 Points (9%)
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
min: 0     avg: 1.9     median: 2.8 (1%)     max: 3.02 Watt
99%
1 A523 +
5.8 Watt (3%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
min: 0     avg: 1     median: 1.2 (1%)     max: 1.894 Watt
100%
1 A523 +
1.2 Watt (1%)

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 → 100% n=10

Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 850 → 109% n=10

Average Benchmarks Allwinner A523 → 95% n=10

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- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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