Samsung Exynos is one of the best mobile processor in the market right now. The newest processor in the Exynos family, the Exynos 7420 powers the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Samsung dumped Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor because of overheating issues.
Qualcomm is now ready with the newest Snapdragon 820 processor, which will replace the 810 processors. But is it better than Exynos 7420? The answer is “NO, it is not”.
Qualcomm is using the Samsung 14 nm technology in Snapdragon 820 chip which makes the newest Qualcomm processor comparable to the Exynos 7420, but not better.
Latest performance results from Geekbench 3 reveal that Qualcomm can give some competetion to Exynos, but still lagging behind litte bit. Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 reached a single core score of 1732 in comparison to Samsung’s Exynos 7420’s 1486 and the Snapdragon 810’s 1227. In the multi core test, Snapdragon 820 fared slightly worse with its score of 4970 against Exynos 7420’s 5284, but outperformed its predecessor Snapdragon 810 that could only reach 4424.
Geekbench 3 got these results by comparing Snapdragon’s Kyro cores against that of the Galaxy S6 and Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, which are powered by Exynos 7420 and Snapdragon 810 respectively.
