Samsung users start petition against using Exynos instead of Snapdragon

Samsung users have started a petition to get the smartphone manufacturer to stop using its own Exynos processors, but to build in Snapdragon socs just like in the US. According to the initiators, the Snapdragons perform better.

According to the authors of the petition on Change.org, smartphones with the Exynos soc are slower, have shorter battery life, the camera sensors are inferior, and suffer from overheating and throttling. They refer to their own experiences and to the sources Notebookcheck, YouTube channel Mrwhosetheboss and Beebom. The petition has been signed more than 16,000 times at the time of writing.

The petition states that Samsung should at least be transparent about the differences. Also, the drafters suggest they should pay less than Americans because of the lower performance. Now, according to them, users in some regions pay even more than Americans.

In the United States, for example, Samsung equips the Galaxy S20 with the Snapdragon 865. That chip has four Arm Cortex A77 cores and four Cortex A55 computing cores. The S20 appears in Europe and Asia with the Exynos 990, featuring two Samsung-designed M5 cores, two Arm A76 cores and four A55 cores. According to Arm himself, A77 sing-threaded performs twenty percent better than the A76.

The precise differences in performance should become apparent in forthcoming comprehensive benchmarks. It will mainly depend on the performance of the M5 cores, which Samsung uses for the heavy calculations. However, according to Android Authority, it seems that the Adreno 650 GPU of the Snapdragon 865 offers higher performance than the Mali-G77 MP11 of the Exynos 990.

Update 11.35: Added sources to which the petition refers.