Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 vs Samsung Exynos 990

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4, vs Samsung Exynos 990. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 and Samsung Exynos 990
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
757902
Samsung Exynos 990
727249
CPU258336201538
GPU183669231438
Memory138904138841
UX176993155432
NanoReview Score757902727249
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
n/a
Samsung Exynos 990
3784
Stabilityn/a60 %
Graphics Testn/a22 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
1091
Samsung Exynos 990
840
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
3085
Samsung Exynos 990
2670
File Compression154.3 MB/s126.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser81.6 pages/s68.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering109.9 MP/sec90.2 MP/sec
Background Blur11.7 frames/s9.95 frames/s
Photo Processing25 frames/s21 frames/s
Image Detection55.8 frames/s60.6 frames/s
HDR93 MP/sec88.9 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.14 MP/sec3.37 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720)
- 3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720)
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)
- 2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
- 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
- 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2300 2730
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache n/a 192 KB
L2 cache n/a 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 2 MB
Process tech. 4 nm 7 nm
Power (TDP) n/a 9 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 810 Mali-G77 MP11
Architecture Adreno 800 Valhall 1st gen
GPU Frequency 895 MHz 832 MHz
Execution Units 2 11
Shader Units 128 32
Total shader 256 352
FLOPS 458.2 GFLOPS 585.7 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Yes Yes
GPU Frequency n/a 15 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 2750 MHz
Bus 2x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 2.2
- UFS 3.1
- UFS 2.1
- UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 3360x1600 pixels 3840x2400 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x108 pixels
Video recording 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Qualcomm X62 5G Exynos 5123
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 2900 MB/s Up to 7350 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 1600 MB/s Up to 3670 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.1
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced February, 2025 yr October, 2019 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename SM6650 S5E9830

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