The Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Galaxy flagship smartphones have traditionally been faster than their Exynos counterparts, which is corroborated once again with the Samsung Galaxy S10
Highlights
- Snapdragon variant of Galaxy S10 beats Exynos variant on PCMark 2.0
- Exynos 9820 20 percent faster than Exynos 9810
Samsung, for the last few years, has insisted on shipping its flagship smartphone with two different chipsets in individual markets. While countries like the U.S. get the Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered variant, India gets the Samsung Galaxy S10 powered by the company’s own Exynos 9820 processor. AnandTech has run early benchmarks on the Snapdragon and Exynos variants of the S10 and the results are rather interesting.
The benchmarks run on the two phones include PCMark 2.0 and Speedometer 2.0. Traditionally, we have seen the Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S smartphones to be faster than their Exynos counterparts, and this report shows nothing different. For the most part, the Snapdragon 855 powered Samsung Galaxy S10 beats the Exynos variant by a large margin in most of PCMark’s testing parameters, including the Web Browsing, Photo Editing and even Writing 2.0 sub-tests. However, the findings reveal a more promising fact.
Across all the tests, the Exynos 9820 performs significantly better than the Exynos 9810-powered S9 and Note 9. The last three generations of Samsung’s flagship Exynos chips had issues with the scheduler, which caused benchmark numbers on the chips to be lower than expected, but it appears that Samsung has fixed the problem with the new 9820 chipsets. AnandTech’s findings report a 20-percent improvement in performance on the new Exynos 9820 over the Exynos 9810, which is well within the reasonable realm of improvement.
We have the Exynos variant of Samsung’s newest flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S10+ and will be putting the phone through our revamped testing process to determine just how much of a true performance bump it offers in comparison to the previous generation flagships from Samsung.
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