A fair few people complain about Exynos being an inferior processor when compared to Snapdragon. Is it a big difference especially for day to day ordinary use or people are just being pedantic? Does it make a lot of difference if people dont play games on mobile?
Also, which processor does the Australian versions of Samsung S21 and S21 plus use? Exynos or Snapdragon?
Day to day wise, the only concern would be battery life. In terms of performance, I don't think people can feel the difference. However battery life is weaker in exynos compared with snapdragon.
Prolonged gaming or CPU processing is also where the exynos will fall. They overheat and performance will become reduced.
It wasn't a huge difference in the past, but exynos 990 has been felt the most.
If you don't game or do anything intensive (downloading, Adobe editing, etc), you should be fine with exynos.
Battery life
e.g. Note 20 Ultra Snapdragon 6hr 32min vs Exynos 4hr 31min.
Personally, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night with the wrong one.
Both are slower than the iPhone. I wonder if any Android fanboys have been losing sleep over that for the last few years, if I absolutely must have the fastest Android then it would kinda bother me that the iPhone is always faster. The world's fastest Android vs the world's fastest phone.
It’s nuts that I have never owned the fastest processor available in any device, ever in my life. I guess I’m just slow.
If your processor is going slower than your thinking, I guess fixing the bottleneck would be worth it.
But the 3.58mhz processor in the dick smith computer dad brought home in the early 80s was faster than I could think even back then when I was sharper.
I remember when processors could barely render a 1080p video. Then a few years later they all could. And waiting over a minute for Photoshop to open, now it opens in seconds for me. imo it could open a few seconds faster…
@AustriaBargain: I remember when processors took a minute to decode a 320x200 JPEG file.
In the last 10 years CPU progress seems to have slowed down big time. Perhaps the Intel monopoly had something to do with it. Good to see Apple and AMD nipping Intel's heels.
I value battery over speed which doesn't have much tangle difference to me.
I have a Note 20 Ultra with the Exynos.
From what I've read online, it seems as if the Exynos has significantly less battery life and also slightly lower performance.
All I can say is that I am generally happy with the phone and performance wise it is fine however battery is absolutely atrocious.
Whether this is to do with the Exynos chip or an undersized battery, I don't know.
The biggest differences are probably that the Exynos has longer battery life and is more powerful than the Snapdragon…
…on the Galaxy S21, if this turns out to be true, that is. Take with a grain of salt for now. :)
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There used to be a time where no power user would even consider an AMD processor…
Thanks all
Is it a Big Deal?
Yes, Maybe, and No.
No:
The average user can't tell any difference in performance and battery life. Even when they say they can, they are lying, they cannot. There's a much bigger difference in performance and battery life when comparing between different users (Apps, use case, frequency, environment, charging, etc etc). So there's really no use losing sleep over it.
Yes:
For more advanced users, since the S8 to the S11, the Snapdragon version has been faster AND more efficient. Not to mention the Snapdragon models usually come with the Sony Exmor sensor, which is slightly sharper than Samsung's in-house Isocell sensor found in the Exynos models. And if you are paying top dollar $800 (or in today's stupid market $3,000) …then why should you not get the best that your money pays for?
Maybe:
For actual advanced users, here we are talking about getting root and custom roms. In such case, it absolutely matters. The snapdragon versions usually have better drivers, kernels, and documentation… but they also have really powerful hardware security (KNOX) built-in. Hence, snapdragon versions usually can't bypass the bootloader, get root access, and flash a custom rom/recovery. The Exynos versions can. However, they're not as good for custom roms due to worse kernel, drivers, and documentation. Overall, skip Samsung if you are a power-user.
Future:
I doubt the security aspects will improve for power-users. It is likely that Exynos/Isocell will keep shrinking the gap between Snapdragon/Exmor devices. Software is getting more chaotic, more bloated, and less efficient as time passes (ie Android 11 vs Android 5.1 vs Android 4.1). Which means it will get even harder to tell differences in real-world use cases. All combined, future Samsung devices won't care about anything, they are appealing to a wider and generalised audience. I would recommend picking up an ex-flagship, or an excellent midrange option from Realme, or to pick a different flagship like Sony Xperia or OnePlus Pro for enthusiasts.
The S21 is not released, let alone announced so everything is pure speculation.
I assume Samsung will use a Exynos 2100 and a Snapdragon 888.
Rumors put the 888 at slightly faster single thread and the 2100 slightly faster multi core.
2100 is said to be 25-35% better battery than it's predecessor and the 888 ~15% better.
Basically, rumors state they will be very similar in performance and battery life.
So there should be inperceivable difference between the two chips based on performance (their are always slight feature differences) so unless you have a specific use that requires a specific feature, it should not matter which chip Samsung uses in the Australian S21.
Yes. Currently have the S20 Ultra and the battery won't last the whole day. Phone also gets very hot. Note: not many apps have access to background running permissions.
Yes generally the Exynos chips are inferior to the Qualcomm models of the same tier you can tell this from synthetic benchmarks but in day to day use the experience should be similar except for battery life. Its hard to beat a company like Qualcomm when there only job is to make CPUs that work good. Comparing the SD chips to the Exynos or even the Hisilicon chips they do perform better even if its just faster modem or better AI or can handle a better camera. Most games are made to work with Snap Dragons Adreno GPU because more than one phone will be using that GPU (driver support).
More so than performance is the fact that Samsung is saving money by using parts its manufactured in house but is still charging a premium for an inferior product. The SD and Exynos phone are usually the same price.
One big deal which probably won't apply to many, is that the performance of some apps is signifcantly different. I can only speak from the perspective of an S10 exynos, but Pokemon Masters runs terribly on this. This isn't the case for everything, as some perhaps more efficient apps run better (Wild Rift).
Also, which processor does the Australian versions of Samsung S21 and S21 plus use? Exynos or Snapdragon?
Exynos most likely. The 2100 for the new S21, but hopeful that the 5G version can get the Snapdragon like in the S20 Fan Edition 5G.
A fair few people complain about Exynos being an inferior processor when compared to Snapdragon. Is it a big difference especially for day to day ordinary use or people are just being pedantic? Does it make a lot of difference if people dont play games on mobile?
For the average person, not a huge difference, however, for a long time now the Exynos has been the inferior chipset. Samsung have chosen to use it here in Oz, most of Asia and Europe because I guess it is more cost effective. I think what peeves people off the most is that here in Oz we pay a big Premium for these devices and for that Premium we get a chip that does not perform as well as the USA counterpart.
Had the s20 FE with the SD chip and the battery life was atrocious
This might just be one person's opinion, but having recently transitioned from the Samsung FE 5G (Snapdragon 865) over to the Samsung Note 20 Ultra 5G (Exynos 990), I didn't really notice any significant changes in improvement to speed or performance.
The only real tangible difference is that I have observed an increase in heat produced from my phone when using the camera, and the recent One UI 3.0 update has degraded my performance slightly (lag when transitioning across from apps).
Final comments would be for anyone who hasn't already on Samsung (or android phones) to consider enabling Developer Options and reducing the transition animator scale, animator duration scale, and window animation scale to .5x for an overall better experience when using the phone on a day-to-day basis.