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Re:Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previo... by mardifoufs on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:26AM (#30920216)
I thought both samsung and qualcomm dropped their custom cores for exynos and snapdragon at this point. So is there still such a huge difference between the two? Aren't both of them using the best arm licensed core? I get that for some reason apple sillicon like performance won't happen but this is just sad from samsung.

Also samsung seems to be doing something fishy with benchmark results. It seems like exynos has been very close or even outperforming snapdragon for years now in benchmarks but the performance gap in real life is still massive. My friend imported a samsung s21 and it is a nightmare compared to my snapdragon s21.

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Re:Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previo... by skavi on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:32AM (#30920304)
there are still many potential points of differentiation on each SoC. For flagships, the cores are pretty much identical, but the cache sizes, fabric, process, GPUs, etc. can change.

For the SoCs being compared here, the new Exynos model has half the big cores of the Qualcomm model.

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Re:Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previo... by 7speter on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:16PM (#30921813)
It might be benchmark cherrypicking. Companies like AMD, Intel, even Apple pick the best looking data to make their silicon look much better than the competitor. The latest example was apple claiming its integrated gpu in its new apple silicon chip used in the Mac Studio was more powerful than nvidias 3090… that didnt turn out to be the case needless to say
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Re:Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previo... by fomine3 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:19PM (#30927284)
Snapdragon 888 vs Exynos 2100 is great comparison because they use same process and almost same Cortex core. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16463/snapdragon-888-vs-exyno...

I wish I could read this review in 8 Gen1 vs 2200, but the writer took apart from Anandtech.

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Re:Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previo... by causi on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:22PM (#30922846)
Yes, and moreso in some applications than others. For example, Exynos graphics drivers are utter garbage and on unconventional graphics tasks like console emulation Exynos chips perform like a Snapdragon that's five or more years out of date.
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