Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

Compared 2 processors: Samsung Exynos 2500, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Samsung Exynos 2500 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
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
Samsung Exynos 2500
2213797
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2082208
CPU500921475806
GPU928912881311
Memory410202390065
UX373762335026
NanoReview Score22137972082208
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Samsung Exynos 2500
2648
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2154
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Samsung Exynos 2500
9881
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
6880
File Compression386.4 MB/s293.2 MB/s
HTML5 Browser234.1 pages/s196.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering272.4 MP/sec221.6 MP/sec
Background Blur36.6 frames/s24.1 frames/s
Photo Processing86.3 frames/s63.9 frames/s
Image Detection246.4 frames/s154.6 frames/s
HDR313.6 MP/sec217.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing13 MP/sec8.01 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
- 2x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
- 1x 3.21 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 10 8
Frequency 3300 3210
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache n/a 6 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 4 nm

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Samsung Xclipse 950 Adreno 825
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Adreno 800
GPU Frequency 1300 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution Units 8 2
Shader Units n/a 512
Total shader n/a 1024
FLOPS n/a 2355.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12.1 12

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Yes Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4800 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 77 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 24 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
UFS 4.0
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 4200 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.4 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced August, 2025 yr April, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename S5E9955 SM8735

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 the clear winner in this comparison.

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