Exynos 2100 vs Snapdragon 888: Benchmarking the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra versions

07 February 2021
We have some performance numbers of our own to go over and examine.

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  • Anonymous
  • n5a
  • 08 Feb 2021

rumors of exynos scoring between 3200 anf 4200 in multicore depending on heat and usage
apparently the power management chip if very proactive which gives a variation of scores as samsung don't want exynos to overheat
also gpu seems to throttle when reaching 40c seems be purposely put in by Samsung

while snapdragon has higher limit before throttling

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    • Anonymous
    • HsF
    • 08 Feb 2021

    What about sustained performance and camera quality disparity due to different ISPs used in the two processors?

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      • Anonymous
      • Hr5
      • 08 Feb 2021

      Did anyone notice that S888 is even worse than S865?

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        • Ucee
        • r3H
        • 08 Feb 2021

        Raz, 08 Feb 2021Agree. Absolutely useless test here. Where is throttle test... moreTheir battery drainage are basically the same watch mrwhosetheboss comparison

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          • Anonymous
          • rJX
          • 08 Feb 2021

          No temperature test, no battery usage test, no throttling test.
          In my opinion, the Exynos were worse in those departments than performance, atleast for the majority of users and use cases.

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            • Anonymous
            • 0xU
            • 08 Feb 2021

            Those multiple antutu tests of what Arun did kind a represents how the phone will perform in usual day time use scenarios in summer period. If you think it is cool and runs fine, recheck that in summer time. GPS navigation, screen on and full brightness. Exynos 990 thottled in simple tasks that way.

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              • AnonD-804996
              • puk
              • 08 Feb 2021

              Rather insignificant differences between Snapdragon and Exynos now. Good job Samsung. Old chipsets were quite inferior, but now they are essentially trading blows and that's fine. I wonder what will happen when Samsung incorporates AMD's graphics technology into Exynos chipsets. From early reports it was beyond anything competition can offer even in fastest chipsets. It's gonna be very interesting to see that one...

                gsmarena you wrote down : Plus, the Snapdragon 888 also has the edge in terms of power efficiency per watt and hence an ever slightly-better overall battery endurance inside the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But when I check that video out, the battery results were in favour of Exynos model not Snapdragons.

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                  • DavidMed
                  • nUL
                  • 08 Feb 2021

                  Raz, 08 Feb 2021Agree. Absolutely useless test here. Where is throttle test... moreWell enough tests have shown that the game was apparently not yet optimized for the Exynos. For other games, the results are similar for both variants.Graphics application efficiency appears to be better with the Adreno GPU, and the Axynos has minimal advantages for everyday tasks.I have the device with Exynos and I am more than satisfied with both the performance and the battery. So everything done right Samsung. I don't care which of the two processors it is.

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                    • Ben
                    • sxr
                    • 08 Feb 2021

                    For me the most important item in any processor is the modem ! That is why I believe snapdragon processors ! They have very good modem ! It is not the speed which is important ! Without a good quality modem you have no speed ! Wether you like it or not you will have no speed without a good processor ! For example the snapdragon 845 has a fantastic modem and even until now he can beat your samsung exynos !

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                      • Anonymous
                      • pKx
                      • 08 Feb 2021

                      Anonymous, 08 Feb 2021Snapdragon is better anyway.Go to sleep real life usage you cant tell, Samsung did what you haters used to complain about now get a grip and jump onto something else to hate. Pathetic trolls

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                        • tDG
                        • 08 Feb 2021

                        Roy-86, 08 Feb 2021GSMA quality is going south! What about sustained performa... moreAgree. Absolutely useless test here. Where is throttle tests? Battery consumption on the max load and max temperature test? Real difficult games like Genshin Impact after 30 min gaming at hight ambient temperature test?

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                          • Anonymous
                          • xq5
                          • 08 Feb 2021

                          Snapdragon is better anyway.

                            Seen a lot bigger difference in games and other benchmarks on other sites, so these results seems odd at best.

                              Anonymous, 08 Feb 2021Speed test g is heavily optimised for andreno gpu. If sp... morethere is no "adreno optimization". A14 and A13 are strongest GPU performers in speed test G so are in real life. are these "optimized" too?

                                Xelomot, 08 Feb 2021It's about 2.5 weeks since the speedtest g, so there c... moremaybe

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • t75
                                  • 08 Feb 2021

                                  It is like GPU test: Non Ti vs Ti, only few FPS difference.

                                    It still baffles me that Samsung does this, and even worse, gets away with it. Granted, the average user doesn't even know what an SoC is, but to market two different products with the same name is really strange and unethical. Can you imagine the ensuing backlash had this been Apple?

                                      Anonymous, 08 Feb 2021Thats call stress test, i do want to know actual performanc... moreDo check out "Mr whose the boss" latest video on SD888 and Exynos 2100 comparison.
                                      Clearly shows that the Exynos variant loses a lot of performance after multiple anututu tests when compared to snapdragon.... Tests were done on S21 Ultras

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