Samsung Galaxy S10+ Benchmarks Show Exynos 9820 Variant Slower Than Snapdragon 855

Like the previous generation Galaxy S smartphones, the new Samsung Galaxy S10 phones will also be offered in two processor variants – one with Exynos 9820 SoC and the other with Snapdragon 855 SoC. The consumers in India will get the Exynos 9820 SoC variant of the Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy S10e. Despite being flagship SoCs, these include two different processors, so there are going to be some obvious performance differences between the two. Now, a publication has published the benchmarks for both processor variants of the official Galaxy S10+ units, which show that Exynos 9820 version performing poorly compared to the Snapdragon 855 version.

According to a report in AnandTech, which was able to get its hands on both Snapdragon 855 and Exynos 9820-powered variants of the Samsung Galaxy S10+, the Exynos 9820 shows significant improvements over the last year's Exynos 9810 and Snapdragon 845, however it falls short of Snapdragon 855 as well as Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 980.

The Snapdragon 855-powered Galaxy S10+ unit performed better in both PCMark Work 2.0 and Speedometer 2.0 benchmarks. The AnandTech report adds that Samsung has been able to significantly optimise the Snapdragon 855 for the Galaxy S10₹ 66,900 phones as the Samsung phone's performance is much better than the performance of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 Reference Device. Also, the publication notes that Samsung seems to be fixed the scheduler slowness issue that was present in previous generations of the Exynos processors.