Exynos 2100 edges out the Snapdragon 888 in a Galaxy S21 Ultra battery test

03 February 2021
The power consumption of the big cores pointed to Qualcomm having the more efficient chip, but that may not be the case after all.

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i0S...Never...Again, 03 Feb 2021No it's not. The peak performance of Sd888 has no prob... moreRead this article,
You'll understand why you cant compare SoC power based on individual game frame rate.
https://www.androidauthority.com/most-powerful-phone-1186314/

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    AnonD-909757, 04 Feb 2021Dude, how could they do anything against the SD888 before i... moreMan ! You're ... ....
    What you said initially and what you've said now has no connection. What Samsung does to increase price that's business.
    You kinda blamed Samsung for underpowering SD variant now going with total new accusation. You're just full of hatred. That's it.
    I don't have time to argue with useless people.

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      i0S...Never...Again, 03 Feb 2021No it's not. The peak performance of Sd888 has no prob... moreDon't you think 1 example is not a good idea to say that ?
      Exynos 990 had higher frame rate in Asphalt(last year release) than SD865.
      That doesn't make Exynos better.

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        Mediatek sux, 03 Feb 2021Depends on which 888 device you compare to. The mi 11 has m... moreI think the only device with SD888 can beat A14 is Asus ROG 5.

          i0S...Never...Again, 03 Feb 2021No it's not. The peak performance of Sd888 has no prob... moreThose 55 fps are on the Mi11, but at a much much higher power consumption (7.9W!)

          In the S21 it averages around 42 @ 5.5W, which is worse than the 47 @ 4.2W on the iPhone.

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            P C M, 03 Feb 2021How stupid this comment is ! Why're you even saying t... moreDude, how could they do anything against the SD888 before it was even release?
            You say my comment is stupid, but damn, yours is way worst, like way up there.

            Samsung did countless bad things, and not just on the Smartphone division, remember when they conspired with other memory printing labs to voluntarily hold them back to artificially increase prices which caused RAM cost to skyrocket?
            Tell me they are an innocent company that never did wrong and always respected their customers and adversaries, so I have a good laugh.

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              Anonymous, 03 Feb 2021Shady things are done by Chinese manufacturers.I'd trust more China (that I don't trust to begin with) than the USA, no country is more shady than the USA, the ultimate master or deceiving.
              Literally it is the bad guy who make other see him as the good guy despite doing worse than the supposedly "real" bad guys.
              We all know how much the US gov and companies (mainly Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple) love to spy on user and abuse in every way imaginable user data and get the most intrusive as they can in privacy, yet Huawei is the bad guy despite the fact that there is not a single proof against them (I don't mean they are innocent, just that there isn't proof they did any bad/illegal data collection outside their own country) while there isn't a month or even a week without a GAFA related privacy issue...

              Don't get me wrong, every big corporate is shady, but the USA host the worst of them all, and most of them too.

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                Anonymous, 03 Feb 2021For what?For what a company that only care about sucking dry customer's wallet, and who try to embellish its image by any means would try and make its more profitable variant of the phone with their own chip they want to sell appear better even if it means cheating and making the competitor appear worse than it is?
                Yeah, I wonder...

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                  • 03 Feb 2021

                  The Exynos has its wifi ON. the SD is on airplane mode?

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                    • 03 Feb 2021

                    Never Samsung again

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                      • 03 Feb 2021

                      There is a discrepancy between the exynos and snap dragon testing. The exynos phone had no sim card but was connected to wifi where as the snapdragon was in airplane mode for what seemed the entirety of the test. Not sure if this would make any substantial difference but seems that the two phone versions weren't compared in identical circumstances.

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                        Samsungs are overrated

                          Well, now the Samsung fans in Europe will be satisfied. 2100 and 888 are pretty much on par now.

                            P C M, 03 Feb 2021Yes, It's thermal solution. Thermal solution has 2 sid... moreNo it's not. The peak performance of Sd888 has no problems averaging 55 plus fps on heavy games like Genshin Impact but iPhone throttles to average 45fps as it has zero cooling.

                            Peak performance of Sd888 > Throttled performance of A14.

                              P C M, 03 Feb 2021Yes, It's thermal solution. Thermal solution has 2 sid... moreDepends on which 888 device you compare to. The mi 11 has much higher thermal throttling limit so its faster than a throttled a14. Thats just in genshin, in gfxbench or 3dmark the a14 is faster i think, even after throttling.

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                                Boooh thanks Obama! Useless battery' life phones for America \o/

                                Am i doing it right, TSMC, trlllls)

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                                  Anonymous, 03 Feb 2021It's not cheating. It's normal that the lower the... moreno lol

                                  on my phone the battery seems to last forever during the top and bottom 10% (90-100, 0-10),

                                  but around 40 to 60% (especially 50% to 60%) is where the percentage drops rapidly

                                  it'a a little trickery to fool users lol

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                                    That's CPU performance but GPU performance on the Exynos is still horrible compared to the Snapdragon and even the Kirin. The Kirin uses 24 cores of the same GPU the Exynos uses 14 cores of, this means the Kirin uses 10 more cores and as a result can achieve much better performance while keeping clock speeds lower and remaining significantly cooler as a result. The best GPU for Android is still that found in the Snapdragon followed by the 24 core Kirin... Exynos comes last.

                                      2% is within margin of error which basically means nothing to be concerned about. The only thing missing was the measure of how much work has been done during the battery drain test. Without any objective performance value then there's not that much to compare about.

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                                        Anonymous, 03 Feb 2021Apple run coolest coz the chipset throttles. They set a pa... moreYes, It's thermal solution. Thermal solution has 2 side,
                                        1. Physical and 2. Software.
                                        We all know what those firestorm cores inside A14 SoC can do. So, it's pretty obvious that A14 has to throttle to keep the temp.
                                        The question is whether the performance drops significantly or not.

                                        The truth is A14 throttled performance is better than SD888's peak performance.