Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Samsung Exynos 2500 Samsung

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

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

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Frequency

3300 MHz

1800 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8-A

Process

3 nm

14 nm

Manufacturing

Samsung

Transistor count

—

TDP

—

5 W

Graphics

GPU frequency

1300 MHz

720 MHz

GPU name

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Adreno 509

Execution units

—

Shading units

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128

Vulkan version

—

1.0

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4

Memory frequency

5333 MHz

1333 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

2x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

5.3 Gbit/s

NPU

Yes

—

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1900 x 1200

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Audio codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

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Hexagon 680

Max camera resolution

—

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

LTE Cat. 13

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.4

5.0

Navigation

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

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Download speed

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Up to 600 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 150 Mbps

Info

Announced

Aug 2025

Oct 2017

Class

Flagship

Mid range

Model number

S5E9955

SDM636

Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

2,519,784

220,696

Geekbench 6

2,648

295

Geekbench 6

9,881

1,088

FP32 (float)

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184

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