Samsung Exynos 5 Octa vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 600

Announced January, 2013

Reasons to buy the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa

	More cores 8		More threads 8
	Better overclocked clock speed (Water) 1.9 GHz

older Released April, 2013

Reasons to buy the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600

Slightly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

The comparison between the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 is a clear representation that sometimes more cores doesn’t necessarily equal better quality.

True, the Exynos 5 has twice as many cores as the Snapdragon 600- eight and four respctively- but to compensate for that, the Snapdragon has about 60% higher clock speed, which compensates for the lack of cores, considering these processors are used in mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, etc. Another thing that the Snapdragon has above the Exynos 5 is that it offers more than twice the amount of fps as shown by the GLBenchmark 2.5 egypt classic (offscreen)- approximately 88 fps to the 43 of the Exynos.

More cores doesn’t always equal better CPU performance, as this case clearly shows.

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Reasons to consider the
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa

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More cores

Twice as many cores; run more applications at once

More threads

Twice as many threads

Better overclocked clock speed (Water)

1.9 GHz

1.7 GHz

More than 10% better overclocked clock speed (Water)

Reasons to consider the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 600

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Slightly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

1.6 GHz

More than 5% higher clock speed

SunSpider 0.9.1

Exynos 5 Octa

679 ms

Snapdragon 600

822.6 ms

BrowserMark 2.0

Exynos 5 Octa

2,710

Snapdragon 600

2,262

GeekBench

Exynos 5 Octa

3,510

Snapdragon 600

3,163

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt Classic (Offscreen)

Exynos 5 Octa

43 fps

Snapdragon 600

87.6 fps

summary	Exynos 5 Octa	Snapdragon 600
Clock speed	1.6 GHz	1.7 GHz
Cores	Octa core	Quad core
overclocking
Overclocked clock speed	1.91 GHz	1.94 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	1.9 GHz	1.7 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	1.91 GHz	1.94 GHz
power consumption
Typical power consumption	N/A	N/A

details	Exynos 5 Octa	Snapdragon 600
Threads	8	4
L2 cache	0.5 MB	2 MB
L2 cache per core	0.06 MB/core	0.5 MB/core
Manufacture process	28 nm	28 nm
Architecture	ARM	ARM
integrated graphics
GPU	GPU	GPU

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa

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Comments

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Roberto Sanchez (08:42 PM, February 19, 2015)

power consumption is clearly one big point beetween the 2 of these processors, since it uses the low power A7 processor most of the time. and its 4 threads not 8, not sure if the l2 cache per core is accurate. i had the samsung galaxy s4 with S600 and now the Exynos variant and im very happy with its performance and battery use.

Alex Woinder (08:49 AM, February 22, 2014)

So did you fix it up? It's very intriguing to see it listed as a 8 core instead of a 4+4

Rushan (04:19 AM, August 18, 2013)

The results are totally opposite here http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_i9500_vs_i9505-review-930p2.php

Jude Fiorillo (01:19 PM, July 26, 2013)

Good point, we'll see if we can get this fixed up

WindLord Gray (01:59 AM, July 26, 2013)

It's not really an 8 core processor, it's a big Quad core Cortex A15 chip clocked at 1.6GHz and a smaller Quad core Cortex A7 chip clocked at 1.2 GHz. Note that only 1 set is active at any given time, depending on the processing load being processed.

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