Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency
3300 MHz
4610 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
3 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
-
1792 KB
L2 cache
-
24 MB
L3 cache
-
8 MB

Graphics

GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1200 MHz
GPU name
-
Adreno 840
Shading units
-
512

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
-
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
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AI

NPU
Yes
Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
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Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution
-
1x 320MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
5.4
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Aug 2025
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
S5E9955
SM8850

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
2,519,784
3,115,282
Geekbench 6
2,648
3,834
Geekbench 6
9,881
12,396
FP32 (float)
-
3,686