Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Qualcomm

SOC Samsung Exynos 2500 Samsung

CPU

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520

Frequency

1400 MHz

3300 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

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Process

28 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

—

TDP

5 W

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Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 308

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GPU frequency

500 MHz

1300 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

Vulkan version

1.0

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OpenCL version

1.2

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DirectX version

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR3

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

667 MHz

5333 MHz

Bus

2x 16 Bit

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

76.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

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Storage type

eMMC 5.1

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

3840 x 2160

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

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Video capture

1K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

- H.264- H.265- AV1

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

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Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

4.1

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced

Feb 2016

Aug 2025

Class

Low end

Flagship

Model number

MSM8917

S5E9955

Official page

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NPU

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Yes

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

136,588

2,519,784

FP32 (float)

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Geekbench 6

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2,648

Geekbench 6

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9,881

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.