Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Samsung Exynos 850

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Samsung Exynos 850 (23/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 23)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 13)
[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Samsung Exynos 850
Samsung

Samsung Exynos 850

23/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
DeviceBenchmark Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 23.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Graphics test 20 FPS —
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 46 FPS —
Section 3 40 FPS —
Stability 67% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon No

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
CPU 1112833 102498
GPU 1494722 10785
Memory 442350 67388
Total score 3950082 234339
UX 900177 53668

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Architecture 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance 8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2000 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 12 MB —
L3 cache 12 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 8 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 3 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 6.0 5.0
Download speed Up to 12500 Mbps Up to 300 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X85 —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 5

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
API Vulkan Vulkan
Asset compression 421.8 MB/sec 68.9 MB/sec
Background blur 40.7 images/sec 1.93 images/sec
Edge detection 1 Gpixels/sec 0.06 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 24.9 images/sec 0.62 images/sec
Feature matching 0.36 Gpixels/sec 0.01 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.04 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
HDR 308.4 Mpixels/sec 37.8 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 238 pages/sec 31.2 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.72 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 330.6 images/sec 11.3 images/sec
PDF Renderer 286.6 Mpixels/sec 42.3 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4390.2 FPS 58.3 FPS
Photo processing 98.7 images/sec 9.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.1 Mpixels/sec 2 Mpixels/sec
Samples 79 tests 2 tests
Stereo matching 115.4 Gpixels/sec 1.8 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
DirectX version 12.1 —
FLOPS 3686.4 Gigaflops 48 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1001 MHz
OpenCL version 3.0 2.0
Pipelines 3 1
Shading units 512 16
Total shaders 1536 16
Vulkan version 1.4 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Announced September 2025 May 2020
Class Flagship Low end
Model number SM8850-AC S5E3830
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site Samsung Exynos 850 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s —
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 2520 x 1080
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 eMMC 5.1
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 1080p at 60FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Data manipulation score 15949 3929
Phones tested 13 models 5 models
Photo editing score 40273 8993
Video editing score 8052 5163
Web score 16855 4948
Writing score 26073 5825

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-11(SamsungPro) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-26->Viljami22 — CPU Throttle
📘 2026-04-29(SamsungPro) — CPU Throttle
📘 2026-04-30(SamsungPro) — CPU Throttle
📘 2026-05-16(Abdul ahad) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-07(Joner) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-25(stockman50) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 850
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus 4716234 —
10.Honor Magic 8 4037547 —
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro 4678468 —
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra 4602290 —
4.Vivo X300 Ultra 4247433 —
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus 4244509 —
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra 4231988 —
7.Honor Robot Phone 4166339 —
8.Honor Magic V6 4166339 —
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro 4117238 —
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 AnTuTu v11 —
1.Samsung Galaxy A21s — 258064
2.Samsung Galaxy M12 — 255386
3.Samsung Galaxy A04s — 234339
4.Samsung Galaxy A13 — 231906
5.Samsung Galaxy M13 — 228034
Phones with Exynos 850 — AnTuTu v11

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