Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 vs Samsung Exynos 990: What is the difference?

Has integrated LTE

✔

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

✔

Samsung Exynos 990

The system on a chip (SoC) has an integrated LTE cellular chip. LTE is capable of downloading at faster speeds than older, 3G technology.

download speed

2000MBits/s

1000MBits/s

The download speed is a measurement of the internet connection bandwidth, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can access online content.

upload speed

318MBits/s

200MBits/s

The upload speed is a measurement of the internet connection bandwidth, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can send information to a server or another device.

Has TrustZone

✔

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 ( Qualcomm Kryo

✔

Samsung Exynos 990 ( ARM Cortex-A76

A technology integrated into the processor to secure the device for use with features such as mobile payments and streaming video using digital rights management (DRM).

uses multithreading

✖

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

✖

Samsung Exynos 990

Multithreading technology (such as Intel’s Hyperthreading or AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading) provides increased performance by splitting each of the processor’s physical cores into virtual cores, also known as threads. This way, each core can run two instruction streams at once.

Has NX bit

✔

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 ( Qualcomm Kryo

✔

Samsung Exynos 990

NX bit helps protect the computer from malicious attacks.

bits executed at a time

128 (Qualcomm Kryo)

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Samsung Exynos 990)

NEON provides acceleration for media processing, such as listening to MP3s.

VFP version

4 (Qualcomm Kryo)

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Samsung Exynos 990)

Vector Floating-Point (VFP) is used by the processor to deliver increased performance in areas such as digital imaging.