Samsung’s flagship CPU performance over the years: Exynos vs Snapdragon

Smartphones become smarter and more powerful with each passing year. While we have the flagship Samsung Galaxy S23 around the globe, we summarize the whole trip of the past and analyze from where these performances really acquired. As we are all aware the Geekbench scores, which is a great way to determine the improvements of one generation with respect to another.

Moving ahead, the data demonstrate here is from Geekbench 5 scores of every Samsung flagship starting from the Galaxy S5 onwards. As a result of this comparative analysis, it is visible that there’s a net performance improvement. The results are quite interesting to look into the progression of smartphones over the years.

Samsung Galaxy: Exynos devices

It is interesting to look at the progression of the company’s Exynos processors since the Galaxy S5. At that time, the Exynos 5422 is nowhere close. Whereas at present, the same call a powerhouse.  It has an insufficient score of 176 in single-core and a weak score of 322 in multi-core.

While the Samsung Galaxy S22 alongside its Exynos 2200 SoC bombasts a 10x improvement in multi-core speeds and a 6.4x improvement in single-core speeds. This is with respect to the actual Exynos 5422, the same power’s the Galaxy S5. Comparatively, that’s an appealing improvement but in the case of a single core, we don’t see an 8x improvement.

The hike from the Exynos 8895 to the 9810 records the biggest overall. This is specifically likely due to the switch from Exynos M2 cores to Exynos M3 cores. Also an upgraded shift from Cortex A53 cores to Cortex A55 respectively.

Samsung Galaxy: Snapdragon devices

Snapdragon is considered to be the cream of the crop in the world of Android. Similar to Exynos, its results also showcase its journey and how far Qualcomm has come over the years. This starts from a single and multi-core score of 156 and 445 respectively. It has been observing drastic leaps in both peaks with the Snaprgon 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 888.

On the other hand, in contrast to the Exynos chipsets, they never record any major jumps from one generation to the next. While it’s relatively a smooth and consistent improvement year by year.

Samsung Galaxy: Exynos and Snapdragon devices

For the wider context of how Snapdragon and Exynos compare across generations, it’s clear that they’ve always been close in performance. There is never a major digression in these chipsets’ capabilities, with differences usually boiling down to power consumption or real-world performance.

In contrast to the wider aspect of how Snapdragon and Exynos compare over generations. Where it is clearly visible that they have always been close in performance.

To conclude, these results show the neck-to-neck nature of the chipset performance race. Also depicts how both Qualcomm and Samsung align with each other. Apparently, Samsung appears to lag behind a little bit while it’s not too far behind Qualcomm in terms of its actual performance. On the other hand, there are many more aspects to measure a chipset performance, whereas Geekbench measures one sole aspect of a device.

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