Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Samsung Exynos 1280 (32/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 32)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 29)
[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Samsung Exynos 1280
Samsung

Samsung Exynos 1280

32/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
DeviceBenchmark Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 32.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 29.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Graphics test 20 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 46 FPS —
Section 3 40 FPS —
Stability 67% 95%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes
NPU theoretical performance — 4.3 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
CPU 1112833 256114
GPU 1494722 71758
Memory 442350 95251
Total score 3950082 615425
UX 900177 192302

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Architecture 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A786x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2400 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 12 MB —
L3 cache 12 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 5 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 6 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.2
Download speed Up to 12500 Mbps Up to 2550 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X85 —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 1280 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 5

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
API Vulkan OpenCL
Asset compression 421.8 MB/sec 102.4 MB/sec
Background blur 40.7 images/sec 6.2 images/sec
Edge detection 1 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 24.9 images/sec 1.62 images/sec
Feature matching 0.36 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.04 Gpixels/sec 0.11 Gpixels/sec
HDR 308.4 Mpixels/sec 68.7 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 238 pages/sec 52.1 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.72 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 330.6 images/sec 37 images/sec
PDF Renderer 286.6 Mpixels/sec 71.3 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4390.2 FPS 408.3 FPS
Photo processing 98.7 images/sec 16.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.1 Mpixels/sec 3.15 Mpixels/sec
Samples 79 tests 37 tests
Stereo matching 115.4 Gpixels/sec 7 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
DirectX version 12.1 —
FLOPS 3686.4 Gigaflops 229.6 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 897 MHz
OpenCL version 3.0 2.0
Pipelines 3 4
Shading units 512 32
Total shaders 1536 128
Vulkan version 1.4 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Announced September 2025 March 2022
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number SM8850-AC S5E8825
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site Samsung Exynos 1280 official site
Successor — -Samsung Exynos 1580

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 17 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 2133 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 108MP
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 2960 x 1440
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 2.2
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Data manipulation score 15949 8838
Phones tested 13 models 3 models
Photo editing score 40273 22696
Video editing score 8052 7350
Web score 16855 9628
Writing score 26073 13552

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-30(🇻🇳 CuoiLaoXuongSong) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-02(MusteryLodall) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-06-11(Pikolano) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-15(OmPhanLaoRaBien) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-14(DJ) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-09(Adi) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-16->SacredGold14 — GeekBench CPU

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 1280
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus 4716234 —
10.Honor Magic 8 4037547 —
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro 4678468 —
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra 4602290 —
4.Vivo X300 Ultra 4247433 —
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus 4244509 —
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra 4231988 —
7.Honor Robot Phone 4166339 —
8.Honor Magic V6 4166339 —
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro 4117238 —
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 AnTuTu v11 —
1.Samsung Galaxy A53 5G — 621907
2.Samsung Galaxy A25 — 617315
3.Samsung Galaxy A33 5G — 615425
4.Samsung Galaxy M34 5G — 603449
5.Samsung Galaxy M33 5G — 598004
Phones with Exynos 1280 — AnTuTu v11

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