The AnandTech website compared the performance between the Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 888 processors in the same smartphone model. The test results were released this Monday (08/02) and showed the victory of the Qualcomm chip over the Samsung chip. The coincidence of the processors in the newest smartphone in the Galaxy line was taken advantage of, in fact, with the tests being carried out on Galaxy s21 ultra.

In addition to the performance, the Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 888 were compared in terms of battery consumption, with another victory for Qualcomm's chip. Thus, the new Snapdragon flagship managed to achieve better performance while also maintaining the lowest battery consumption.

What did the previous comparisons show?

The first comparison between the chips came a few months ago through a Geekbench leak. In this test, the Exynos 2100 had come out on top, albeit just barely. Proof of this is the fact that, even in this comparison, the Snapdragon 888 came out on top in the single-core test. However, the Exynos stood out in general use. Unfortunately, this was not yet a real test.

More recently, however, both chips were tested and compared, with the Samsung processor winning. The results showed that the Exynos performed better in terms of both battery and temperature. The smartphone chosen for these tests was also the Galaxy S21 Ultra.

AnandTech's discoveries

Testing the Exynos 2100, the website was able to see that the chip's performance was beyond what Samsung itself claimed, at least in terms of single-core performance. While the company said it was 19% more powerful than the Exynos 990, present in the Galaxy S20 line, the tests showed that there was, in fact, a 27% improvement.

However, also in relation to the Exynos 990, the Exynos 2100 presented greater latency. That is, the time required until an action has a real result on the cell phone, such as, for example, the delay between you clicking on an app and it actually opening. Numerically, the difference was 15 nanoseconds.

When comparing the performance of Exynos with Snapdragon, AnandTech chose to perform most of the tests with Samsung's chip in the freezer. This was because Exynos was unable to compete with Qualcomm's chip under standard test conditions, i.e., using only the fan. Since the objective of the comparison was to need both processors at their maximum possible performance, this was the solution found.

Qualcomm also won when it comes to GPUs. The Exynos 78's Mali-G2100, although 40% faster than the Exynos 990's, is more comparable to the Snapdragon 650+'s Adreno 865. On the other hand, and unfortunately, the performance of both the Exynos 2100 and the Snapdragon 888 consume a lot of battery power. All of this results in high battery consumption for the Galaxy S21 Ultra, although models with Samsung's proprietary chip are still more affected.

Furthermore, the tests were able to determine that the Exynos 2100 tends to accelerate more than the Snapdragon 888 at the beginning of processes. Basically, this means that it starts opening an app, for example, more quickly, which can give the false impression of faster processing speed. When used normally, however, with several apps running simultaneously, it disappoints.

Conclusions

It should be noted that both the Snapdragon 888 and the Exynos 2100 are high-performance processors, and the victory of one over the other may suggest that they are at very different levels. This is not the case. The differences are not as great as they appear, and this explains why certain tests give the victory to the Samsung chip, while others give the victory to the Qualcomm chip.

In any case, and because of this, there is no denying that the competition is fierce, which is great. After all, we are the ones who benefit.

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