Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 vs Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa
Qualcomm Snapdragon 632
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 (SD632) is a mid-range octa-core SoC with eight Kryo 250 cores (Cortex-A53 based) at up to 1.8 GHz, an Adreno 506 GPU, a LPDDR3 memory controller (dual channel) and a X9 LTE (Cat 12, 300 Mbps down, 150 Mbps up) modem. Furthermore, the chip supports 802.11abgn WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0. It is manufactured in 14nm FinFet. Qualcomm states a 40% faster performance compared to the old Snapdragon 626.
Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa
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The Samsung Exynos 7 Octa is a 64-bit SoC for mainstream smartphones and tablets (usually Android based). It was announced in February 2016 and integrates eight Cortex-A53 cores, which are manufactured in a modern 14-nm process. Compared to the previous 28-nm-SoCs, the performance was increased and the power consumption is 30 % lower according to Samsung. The integrated LZE Cat.6 modem reaches transfer rates of up to 300 Mbps (downstream) and 50 Mbps (upstream). The dual-channel memory controller supports LPDDR3-1866 RAM.
The integrated graphics adapter is an ARM Mali-T830 MP1 (core clock of 700 MHz according to Wikipedia). Besides OpenGL ES 3.2, it also supports OpenCL 1.2 as well as DirectX 11 (FL 9_3). The performance is sufficient for common Android games from 2016 at medium details.
Model | Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 | Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa | ||||||||
Codename | Kryo 250 | A53 | ||||||||
Series | Qualcomm Snapdragon | Samsung Exynos | ||||||||
Clock | 1800 MHz | 1600 MHz | ||||||||
Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 8 / 8 | ||||||||
Technology | 14 nm | 14 nm | ||||||||
Features | Adreno 506 GPU, X9 LTE Modem, Hexagon 546 DSP, 2x ISP 14-Bit | ARM Mali-T830 GPU, 8x Cortex-A53 1.6 GHz, LTE Cat.6, 14 nm, dual-channel memory controller LPDDR3-1866 | ||||||||
iGPU | Qualcomm Adreno 506 | ARM Mali-T830 MP1 (700 MHz) | ||||||||
Architecture | ARM | ARM | ||||||||
Announced | ||||||||||
Manufacturer | www.qualcomm.com | www.samsung.com | ||||||||
Series: Exynos A53 |
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Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 → 100% n=21
Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa → 62% n=21

* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation