Exynos 2100 vs Snapdragon 888: Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra sustained performance and throttling test

21 February 2021
We did some torture testing on the two variants, just to see which one holds-up better under sustained load.

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  • 21 Feb 2021

Can see the battery drop is the same though... Both loose 13% 👌👌👌👌👌👌

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    • xq5
    • 21 Feb 2021

    If you are buying an android phone always go for snapdragon.

      SEUL8TR, 21 Feb 2021If Exynos used custom cores moongose,vit would be on par. No it won't Mongoose was shit down because it failed to impress agaisnt SD, and good they shut it down

        Snapdragon is better in camera. Gsmarena why u didn't reported it.

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          • Anonymous
          • GQU
          • 21 Feb 2021

          Mediatek sux, 21 Feb 2021Emulation is getting better on mali too, citra mmj latest v... moreYes, hard to find proper Emulation videos on other non SD processors, may be compatibility issue or bugs?

          I watch TechUtopia but he seeems to be doing mostly SD processors.

          As far as Emulators go, I am waiting for Skyline Switch Emulator,it's interesting because it intention is to not emulate but to translate code since switch is also ARM But has a long looong way to go,but they are gettting support from Homebrew and Yuzu.

            Anonymous, 21 Feb 2021Thanks for clarifying I just want to get a proper pixel ... moreEmulation is getting better on mali too, citra mmj latest versions improved perf a lot on mali. And i hear the exynos 2100 does well in dolphin too, though i havent seen any videos.

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              • Anonymous
              • GQU
              • 21 Feb 2021

              Mediatek sux, 21 Feb 2021Its not about being closed source. Mali lacked some feature... moreThanks for clarifying

              I just want to get a proper pixel flagship with Snapdragon processor, problem is Pixel may move to custom Samsung made “whitechapel” chip that it may never play emulators the way Snapdragon does.

                Anonymous, 21 Feb 2021Exciting times Ahead: From this year we may see AMD ... moreIts not about being closed source. Mali lacked some features in the gpu driver, while adreno didnt. So devs have to make hacks to workaround that.

                Adreno drivers are closed source, while i see some old mali drivers source are on the arm site now.

                  Overall Snapdragon 888 is better than Exynos 2100 from every aspect. That's it.

                  "Exynos is back" was a lie. "Exynos is on the right path" should have been the correct slogan.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 7kk
                    • 21 Feb 2021

                    Anonymous, 21 Feb 2021Samsung gets AMD graphics boost Snapdragon needs somethi... moreYeah, as if we all want to play CP-2077 or MSFS on ULTRA @120fps w/ 1440p+ res

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                      • Anonymous
                      • GQU
                      • 21 Feb 2021

                      Samsung gets AMD graphics boost

                      Snapdragon needs something similar, Adreno is getting stale with minor improvements Year on Year

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 7tp
                        • 21 Feb 2021

                        What about maximum video data rate differences!

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                          • PV4
                          • 21 Feb 2021

                          Kev, 21 Feb 2021Let's hope that the next Exynos 2200 will fix these pe... more Yes hopefully they keep improving the Exynos version , also it would also be nice if we could go back to the old days where Samsung decked the phones full of convenience features like 3.5 mm headphone Jack, the sd card , and flat displays , and chargers.

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                            • 3Tr
                            • 21 Feb 2021

                            Great article, thanks!
                            In the future, the Gfxbench battery stress test (manhattan) could be added too.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • GQU
                              • 21 Feb 2021

                              Exciting times Ahead:



                              From this year we may see AMD Graphics in Exynos

                              With the next two years we may see

                              Hi Performance Nuvia Custom Chip in Snapdragon

                              ARM 64bit only Makalu in 2023.


                              Only problem for Exynos and Mediatek is Very Very difficult to play Emulators due to closed sourced nature, Dev's aren't porting and working on Emulators for those chips

                                If Exynos used custom cores moongose,vit would be on par.

                                  Kev, 21 Feb 2021Let's hope that the next Exynos 2200 will fix these pe... moreThey used stock Arm , not custom made Moongose.

                                    Love to add temperature when testing.
                                    So the tech chap's 2100 is a rare version. All the 888 s21ultra tests have same results.
                                    For my daily use, I can see 888 can last longer 2100 for 1h max.

                                      Snappy 888 is the winner and not by that small of a margin....
                                      Exynos improved but it's still not up to par with Snappys

                                        ThunderCrackR, 21 Feb 2021Sincerely, I am starting to think that tech sites really do... more...and each time they say both chipsets are not so different performance-wise even though the numbers clearly shows that the SD one wins big time.
                                        I have similar thoughts about these 'news', but in a sense that they released news about the individual new features in S21, almost like promotional release. It's fine with me, but they should clarify if it is indeed sponsored.

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