Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Samsung Exynos 9820

[ 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 9820 (36/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 36)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 34)
[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Samsung Exynos 9820
Samsung

Samsung Exynos 9820

36/100
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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 9820
DeviceBenchmark Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 36.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 34.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
Graphics test 20 FPS 3 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 46 FPS —
Section 3 40 FPS —
Stability 67% 81%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
CPU 1112833 297306
GPU 1494722 132919
Memory 442350 146753
Total score 3950082 744321
UX 900177 167343

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
Architecture 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance 2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M42x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A754x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2730 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 12 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 12 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 8 nanometers
Transistor count — 8.5 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.0
Download speed Up to 12500 Mbps Up to 2000 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X85 Exynos 5100
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 316 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
API Vulkan OpenCL
Asset compression 421.8 MB/sec 114.9 MB/sec
Background blur 40.7 images/sec 7.34 images/sec
Edge detection 1 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 24.9 images/sec 4.35 images/sec
Feature matching 0.36 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.04 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
HDR 308.4 Mpixels/sec 72.5 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 238 pages/sec 69.4 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.72 Gpixels/sec 0.21 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 330.6 images/sec 44.9 images/sec
PDF Renderer 286.6 Mpixels/sec 69 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4390.2 FPS 739.3 FPS
Photo processing 98.7 images/sec 18.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.1 Mpixels/sec 2.83 Mpixels/sec
Samples 79 tests 20 tests
Stereo matching 115.4 Gpixels/sec 14.5 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
DirectX version 12.1 —
FLOPS 3686.4 Gigaflops 404.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 702 MHz
OpenCL version 3.0 2.0
Pipelines 3 12
Shading units 512 24
Total shaders 1536 288
Vulkan version 1.4 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
Announced September 2025 November 2018
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8850-AC S5E9820
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site Samsung Exynos 9820 official site
Successor — -Samsung Exynos 2500

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 12 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 9820
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 3840 x 2400
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP9
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
Data manipulation score 15949 7575
Phones tested 13 models 3 models
Photo editing score 40273 18093
Video editing score 8052 5765
Web score 16855 7478
Writing score 26073 10112

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
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 —
📘 2026-05-26(Tban) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-16(Erick Tcharles BR) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-29(gayparad1488) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-07(Xxfish7) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-11->Sergo67 — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-02->seraphim — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-07->StarDragonPL — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-13(ODIN_MODE) — GeekBench CPU

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 9820
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 S10 Plus — 782239
2.Samsung Galaxy S10 — 747257
3.Samsung Galaxy S10e — 724233
Phones with Exynos 9820 — AnTuTu v11

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