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Samsung Exynos 9820
The Samsung Exynos 9820 is an 8nm premium smartphone chip announced by Samsung in November 2018 and used in the Exynos versions of the Galaxy S10 family from March 2019. It pairs two custom Mongoose M4 cores with two Cortex-A75 and four Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali-G76 MP12 GPU, an NPU and an LTE Cat.20 modem rated at 2.0Gbps.
Pros
- Three-cluster CPU of two custom cores, two Cortex-A75 and four Cortex-A55; Samsung quotes about 20% higher single-core speed or 40% better power efficiency than the Exynos 9810
- Mali-G76 MP12 GPU that Samsung says delivers either a 40% performance boost or 35% power savings
- Separate NPU alongside a DSP; Samsung says it runs AI tasks about seven times faster than the previous generation
- Integrated LTE Cat.20 modem with 8x carrier aggregation, up to 2.0Gbps down and 316Mbps up
- Handles 8K video at 30fps or 4K at 150fps, with up to five camera sensors supported
Cons
- Integrated modem is LTE only, with no 5G support
- Galaxy S10 models sold in the US and China used the Snapdragon 855 instead, so the Exynos 9820 versions were limited to other regions
- Samsung publishes no AI TOPS figure for the NPU, so its AI throughput cannot be compared directly with later chips
- Samsung lists the chip as end of life on its product page
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU and GPU still need a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Samsung Exynos 9820
General
- Announced
- 2018
- Process
- 8 nm
CPU
- Cores
- 8
- Core configuration
- 2x2.73 GHz Mongoose M4 + 2x2.31 GHz Cortex-A75 + 4x1.95 GHz Cortex-A55
- Max clock
- 2.73 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Arm Mali-G76 MP12
AI
- NPU
- Samsung NPU
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR4X
Connectivity
- Modem
- Integrated LTE Cat-20
- Max download
- 2 Gbps
Media
- Max display
- WQUXGA (3840x2400)
- Video capture
- 8K@30fps
Devices with the Samsung Exynos 9820
1 device in our catalog uses this chip
Quick answers
Is the Samsung Exynos 9820 good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Samsung Exynos 9820 yet: there are no published CPU and GPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. The Samsung Exynos 9820 is an 8nm premium smartphone chip announced by Samsung in November 2018 and used in the Exynos versions of the Galaxy S10 family from March 2019. It pairs two custom Mongoose M4 cores with two Cortex-A75 and four Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali-G76 MP12 GPU, an NPU and an LTE Cat.20 modem rated at 2.0Gbps.
Which devices use the Samsung Exynos 9820?
One device in our catalog uses the Samsung Exynos 9820: Samsung Galaxy S10.
What are the key specs of the Samsung Exynos 9820?
Cores: 8 · Process: 8 nm · GPU: Arm Mali-G76 MP12
What are the closest alternatives to the Samsung Exynos 9820?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Huawei Kirin 990 5G, Samsung Exynos 990 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
