Qualcomm is one of the biggest names in the mobile chipset industry with MediaTek and Exynos as its prime rivals in the Android mobile race. Qualcomm has a wide range of mobile chipsets for all price ranges of smartphones. Samsung’s proprietary Exynos processor also powers different segments of the brand’s Android phones. The Exynos 2100 is Samsung’s bet in the premium mobile chipset segment, whereas Qualcomm has several of them in this league including the most recent Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. We are comparing both Exynos 2100 with Qualcomm’s most premium Snapdragon chipset. Read on the differences below:
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Vs Samsung Exynos 2100: CPU Comparison
Qualcomm has fabricated the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor on a 4nm process and has built it using the ARMv9-A Instruction set. The processor has a 3200MHz frequency range and octa-cores including one Cortex-X2 core clocked at 3.2GHz, three Cortex A710 cores clocked at 1.75GHz, and four Cortex-A510 cores clocked at 2GHz.
The Samsung Exynos 2100 processor also has octa-cores with one Cortex-X1 core clocked at 2.9GHz, three Cortex A78 cores clocked at 2.8GHz, and four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.2 GHz. This chipset is built using ARMv8.4-A architecture and has a frequency range of 2900Mhz. The CPU performance is good with both these flagship chipsets, but the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is slightly better compared to the Exynos 2100.
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Vs Samsung Exynos 2100: GPU Differences
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset employs Adreno 730 GPU for graphics based on Adreno 700 architecture. The Samsung Exynos 2100 has the Mali-G78 MP14 GPU support which is based on Vallhall 2 architecture. The Qualcomm Snapdragon processor here has a GPU frequency of 900MHz, whereas, the Samsung Exynos chipset has 760MHz. The Vulkan version on both chipsets is 1.1, while the OpenCL and DirectX version is 2.0 and 12 respectively.
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Vs Samsung Exynos 2100: Memory, Multimedia (ISP)
In terms of memory support, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and the Exynos 2100 chipset have the same LPDDR5 memory support, each offering a 3200MHz memory frequency. However, the max memory allocation size is 24GB with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and 16GB with the Exynos 2100. The storage type supported by both Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and the Exynos 2100 is UFS 3.1.
As for the multimedia aspects, the SD 8+ Gen 1 chipset offers a max display resolution of 2160 x 3840. The Samsung processor also has the same max display resolution. The maximum camera resolution compatibility with both these processors is 1X200MP
. The Exynos 2100 additionally supports 2X32MP max camera resolution. Similarly, the video recording capability of both these flagship mobile processors is 8K@30fps and 4K@120fps. The Samsung chipset only supports the former. Speaking of the audio and video codecs, the SD 8+ Gen 1 and the Exynos 2100 get H.264, H.265, VP8, and VP9 video codecs and AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, and WAV audio codecs.
