[Sirzach78]

I know exynos is generally better, but are there any advantages to having the snapdragon variant of the s8?

[cjtayaban]

How can you say that Exynos is better than a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor? Those phones with Snapdragon processors actually has a longer life span. They can be used for years without deteriorating performance.

[EMGSM]

I know exynos is generally better, but are there any advantages to having the snapdragon variant of the s8?

Prior to the Snapdragon 835, benchmarks have traditionally shown Exynos coming out on top (especially in multi-tasking). The obvious difference before was octa-core vs quad-core. The 835 however now has 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. We won't know advantages/disadvantages until people get hands on and benchmark them. Hope this helps.

[BarryH_GEG]

How can you say that Exynos is better than a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor? Those phones with Snapdragon processors actually has a longer life span. They can be used for years without deteriorating performance.

Do you realize Samsung's fabricating S-835 for Qualcomm using the same 10nm process used for Exynos 8895?

Everything I've read shows Exynos beating S-835 in CPU tests and Mali beating Adreno; the latter significantly. There are some tests where S-835 under performs S-820/1.

None of this matters if Samsung tunes the S8 s/w so that both chips perform comparably.

[dpham00]

If you want CDMA, gotta stick with snapdragon. Of course Samsung could use a exynos CPU with a CDMA capable baseband processor, but they didn't.