**CPU Performance Comparison: Exynos 2100 vs Snapdragon 8**

The Exynos 2100 chip, found in the Samsung S21 Ultra, has been put to the test against its rival, the Snapdragon 8 chip, which powers the Xiaomi Mi 11. In a comprehensive comparison, we see that the Snapdragon 8 is indeed superior when it comes to CPU performance. While the Exynos 2100 can handle demanding tasks, its performance drops significantly under heavy stress.

One of the key differences between the two chips becomes apparent when looking at temperatures. The Exynos 2100 gets much hotter than the Snapdragon 8, especially in the rear of the phone. In one instance, the S21 Ultra's temperature reached 42 degrees Celsius, while the Mi 11 peaked at 46 degrees Celsius. This significant difference is likely due to the Exynos 2100's inferior design and thermal management.

**Game Performance Comparison**

When it comes to gaming performance, both phones can handle demanding games with ease. However, the Snapdragon 8 chip consistently outperforms the Exynos 2100, even when using the default highest graphics settings. In one test, the Mi 11 loaded up slightly faster than the S21 Ultra, but only because of its superior storage.

To put the performance difference into perspective, we conducted a game loading test, where both phones were cooled down and started simultaneously. The results showed that the Mi 11 loaded up slightly faster due to its better storage. However, when switching to the maximum graphics setting, which is not the default setting used in this comparison, the Snapdragon 8 chip maintained a smoother gaming experience.

**Thermal Testing**

To put both phones through their paces, we conducted an hour-long thermal testing session. We alternated between using both phones at the same time, moving around the map and engaging in light gaming to prevent overheating. The results were striking: the Mi 11's temperature skyrocketed to 46 degrees Celsius, while the S21 Ultra remained relatively cool at 42 degrees Celsius.

The difference was so pronounced that we could feel the heat emanating from the Mi 11 when it was stationary for too long. This suggests that the Exynos 2100 is not able to handle high temperatures as well as the Snapdragon 8 chip, which is a major concern for users who want a phone that can perform well under demanding conditions.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our comparison of the Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 8 chips has shown that the latter is significantly superior in terms of CPU performance. The Snapdragon 8's better design and thermal management mean it can maintain higher frame rates and smoother gameplay even when stressed. While the Mi 11 may offer some advantages in terms of storage, its inferior chip makes it a less desirable option for users who want a phone that can handle demanding tasks.

The fact that Samsung charges the same price for both phones in Europe highlights the disparity between the two chips. As consumers become increasingly aware of the importance of performance and thermal management, we expect to see more manufacturers adopting Snapdragon 8-powered phones as their flagship offerings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys chris here back with a thermal throttling test this time and taking a look at the thermals and just how will these phones throttle so on the left we've got the xiaomi mi 11 and this of course has the snapdragon triple eight it's got eight gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage and here we have the samsung galaxy s21 ultra with the exynos 2100 also 8 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage so both of these phones right now have been left they've been fully charged and they are cool so both of them just to confirm 100 better life both of the screens are calibrated to 200 nets of screen brightness throughout this entire video right here so i'm going to load up now 3d mark and we're going to do the throttling test here now this will report on just how much these phones will actually throttle down now right now on the screen maybe it looks like the xiaomi mi 11 is a little bit brighter the screen but trust me they are both measured they're both 200 nits here so it's the stress test we're going to go into here and i'm going to run this this goes for 20 minutes and then we'll take a look at which phone gets the warmest and which phone is going to throttle the most and i shall run this at the exact same time right here for some reason looks like it's not ready on the me11 no it should be so let's run this now and this is going to be 20 minutes and we'll skip ahead and check out the results okay so it's just finishing up its last little loop here now and i can see the thermals look at the difference we're getting up to a scorching 48 which is not actually too bad for the me 11 as you'll probably see later on 49 degrees now at the front of the phone whereas it's only 41 with the samsung galaxy s 21 ultra here the exynos version and once once this finishes up i'll show you the results and i'll take a look at the back of the phones too they're thermals okay so the phone has finished up first the s21 ultra and we'll take a look now at these results so here we go you can see out of the loops here so stability it has throttled down to 64 sorry 65 almost right there you can see and stability 90. so there's a huge score difference the gap look at the lowest score here on the exynos this is very very interesting these results here you can see all the different tests the loop and see how it's getting lower and lower and lower right down to after 20 minutes 20 loops to 3683 now what did the me 11 do here always in the 5000s there you can see so very good it gets a lot hotter but it's not throttling now after the recent firmware update on the s21 ultra this is the last firmware update it seems that they have been controlling the thermals a lot more throttling it down so what i'm gonna do now is flip over the phones and we will take a look at the rear of them okay so let's see what the thermal imaging camera is showing here okay there's a bit of a hot patch on the me11 and that's about 45 degrees okay so that's pretty warm warm to the touch but the front getting up to almost 50 that is hot and look at this the s21 ultra there's only about 38 degrees maximum there and just before i let both of these phones cool down for our next throttling test 89 is what the battery is at here after the 20 runs and 88 so very very similar there and they have remember the same screen resolution they're both amoled panels they're both running at 120 hertz and you can see there is the frame rate difference here from 13 frames per second to 42 and a lot higher from 22 to 42 on the snapdragon triple eight there and you can see the internal temperatures from 24 degrees to 46 and from 22 to 42 there on the exynos powered s21 ultra so right now i'm going to leave these phones let them cool right down for the next throttling test so this next test is called cpu throttling test and you can see all the eight cores there and what this is going to do is measure the performance after 15 minutes of stressing out those calls there so nothing is running in the background of both of these phones before nothing was running there as well just to confirm there's no other apps running memory has been cleared both of these phones were also rebooted okay and they are both cool i let them cool down for 25 minutes and they are both cool to the touch there so no problems there now we're gonna measure and see how much they throttle with this particular test and i'll check on those thermals again so i'm just going to hit start on this one at the same time and there we go we'll leave that for 15 minutes but we just see at the start here what is going to happen are we going to go down to 65 performance as we did before with the exynos and will the snapdragon triple h here just lose 10 performance you can see already look at that the snapdragon is in the lead i can see with the throttling and the performance as well there as you can see i'll let this run now for 15 minutes and we'll check on those results and also the thermals okay so we are coming up now to the 15-minute mark well it's just a little bit short there there's no point probably running right to 15 but we can see what's happening there that the overall performance is actually better on the snapdragon triple eight the exynos is throttling and stayed throttling and it only took literally about 30 seconds to start throttling where the throttling performance where it really actually dropped off was about the five minute mark on the snapdragon triple eight and it has not recovered then but you can see the exynos is starting to throttle a little bit more now interesting they've reversed roles now with the heat so the gpu seems to be the thing that's heating up the snapdragon triple eight chipset and you can see right now looking at the thermals that the hot patch on the front of the screen here is the hottest on the set galaxy s21 ultra there which is almost 43 degrees versus if i have a look at the hottest point here on the me 11 the mi 11 is about 38 or so this is the front of the phones so it's about to finish up that test there's no point me running it for another 30 seconds so i'll just stop the test now we'll take a look at the other side of them and see how they feel there with the thermals oh okay so here we can see definitely rolls have reversed now when it comes to cpu only performance that much hotter on the exynos 2100 the s21 ultra here getting up to about 42 degrees on the rear whereas the mi 11 is only 35 36 maximum so that is quite a big difference now i'm back testing out gen chin impact but this time around i won't use the default highest setting which is capped at 30 frames per second i'll set that to 60. so this is the s21 ultra and we have the me 11 there at the top and i'm just going to load and see which one it should be the same point oh while almost the same point in the map it's just to get an idea of which one is going to load the game the fastest both phones have nothing else running in the background they were both cooled down before starting the games and i started the game at the exact same time as well just just to keep things exactly even here and both of them still have the screen calibrated to 200 nits of brightness manually throughout this video as i mentioned before so the s29 ultra no surprise there did actually load up a little bit faster because it has superior storage so much quicker than the xiaomi it's almost like double check out my review i did the comparison of both of these for that so these settings here now i'm going to go and change that it'll be on now on the maximum default setting but that's not actually the one i want to use now i want to really push both of these phones really hard we've seen before with 3d mark that the gpu throttles more on the exynos so that's probably going to happen again so here we have the default setting okay on the highest so i'll go to where it says fps and simply change that to 60 now and these are going to both of them are going to probably get very very hot so we'll see what happens now it's going to be an hour that i'm going to do this so i'm going to try and use them both at the same time and just rotate between them when moving about and gaming so one of them's not sitting there idle for too long and we'll see just how hot they get both of these phones now after one hour let's skip ahead all right so it's been an hour in fact it's been over one hour and i've been trying to use these phones both at the same time just moving around the map just to not let one of them cool down too much to make it unfair so the back of the xiaomi clearly hotter here we can see we're picking it about 46 degrees and maybe even a little bit higher i have seen it peaked to 50 at times and the back of the s21 ultra here that is only getting up to about 42 degrees here so flipping these phones over now we're in the same point of the map too as well by the way more or less i moved back i can clearly feel to the touch that yes the m11 is a lot hotter so on the front of the screens we're looking here at about 46 here versus about 38 but when i move around on the map and i just walk ahead here i don't even have to do much i can see clearly that it's stuttering at times the frame rate is not steady so it's clearly throttling to keep the thermals under control on the s21 ultra as we saw with my 3d mark results if you remember that if you saw that part of the video that it throttled down about 35 percent so here yeah definitely the snapdragon 8 is so much smoother maintaining a much higher frame rate more steady smoother gameplay and the more you move around here the more heat that is generated and it doesn't take too long to cool down so let's have a look at those thermals again clearly the me11 as i mentioned in the review is a hotter phone and it can peak at even 50 degrees even over 50 degrees celsius i have seen so what can we take away from this we can take away one fact that the exynos the 2100 is an inferior chip it is nowhere near as good as the snapdragon triple eight its cpu cores when stressed will actually get hotter than the cpu cores that are in the triple eight however the gpu is the adreno and it's very hot okay the adreno gpu gets a lot hotter than what they have with the mali gpu with the s21 ultra there yet samsung charges here in europe the same price for the inferior chipset versus the snapdragon triple eight so thank you so much for watching this video do check out my review comparison of both of these phones by going to a lot of other detail and thank you so much for watching this videohey guys chris here back with a thermal throttling test this time and taking a look at the thermals and just how will these phones throttle so on the left we've got the xiaomi mi 11 and this of course has the snapdragon triple eight it's got eight gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage and here we have the samsung galaxy s21 ultra with the exynos 2100 also 8 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage so both of these phones right now have been left they've been fully charged and they are cool so both of them just to confirm 100 better life both of the screens are calibrated to 200 nets of screen brightness throughout this entire video right here so i'm going to load up now 3d mark and we're going to do the throttling test here now this will report on just how much these phones will actually throttle down now right now on the screen maybe it looks like the xiaomi mi 11 is a little bit brighter the screen but trust me they are both measured they're both 200 nits here so it's the stress test we're going to go into here and i'm going to run this this goes for 20 minutes and then we'll take a look at which phone gets the warmest and which phone is going to throttle the most and i shall run this at the exact same time right here for some reason looks like it's not ready on the me11 no it should be so let's run this now and this is going to be 20 minutes and we'll skip ahead and check out the results okay so it's just finishing up its last little loop here now and i can see the thermals look at the difference we're getting up to a scorching 48 which is not actually too bad for the me 11 as you'll probably see later on 49 degrees now at the front of the phone whereas it's only 41 with the samsung galaxy s 21 ultra here the exynos version and once once this finishes up i'll show you the results and i'll take a look at the back of the phones too they're thermals okay so the phone has finished up first the s21 ultra and we'll take a look now at these results so here we go you can see out of the loops here so stability it has throttled down to 64 sorry 65 almost right there you can see and stability 90. so there's a huge score difference the gap look at the lowest score here on the exynos this is very very interesting these results here you can see all the different tests the loop and see how it's getting lower and lower and lower right down to after 20 minutes 20 loops to 3683 now what did the me 11 do here always in the 5000s there you can see so very good it gets a lot hotter but it's not throttling now after the recent firmware update on the s21 ultra this is the last firmware update it seems that they have been controlling the thermals a lot more throttling it down so what i'm gonna do now is flip over the phones and we will take a look at the rear of them okay so let's see what the thermal imaging camera is showing here okay there's a bit of a hot patch on the me11 and that's about 45 degrees okay so that's pretty warm warm to the touch but the front getting up to almost 50 that is hot and look at this the s21 ultra there's only about 38 degrees maximum there and just before i let both of these phones cool down for our next throttling test 89 is what the battery is at here after the 20 runs and 88 so very very similar there and they have remember the same screen resolution they're both amoled panels they're both running at 120 hertz and you can see there is the frame rate difference here from 13 frames per second to 42 and a lot higher from 22 to 42 on the snapdragon triple eight there and you can see the internal temperatures from 24 degrees to 46 and from 22 to 42 there on the exynos powered s21 ultra so right now i'm going to leave these phones let them cool right down for the next throttling test so this next test is called cpu throttling test and you can see all the eight cores there and what this is going to do is measure the performance after 15 minutes of stressing out those calls there so nothing is running in the background of both of these phones before nothing was running there as well just to confirm there's no other apps running memory has been cleared both of these phones were also rebooted okay and they are both cool i let them cool down for 25 minutes and they are both cool to the touch there so no problems there now we're gonna measure and see how much they throttle with this particular test and i'll check on those thermals again so i'm just going to hit start on this one at the same time and there we go we'll leave that for 15 minutes but we just see at the start here what is going to happen are we going to go down to 65 performance as we did before with the exynos and will the snapdragon triple h here just lose 10 performance you can see already look at that the snapdragon is in the lead i can see with the throttling and the performance as well there as you can see i'll let this run now for 15 minutes and we'll check on those results and also the thermals okay so we are coming up now to the 15-minute mark well it's just a little bit short there there's no point probably running right to 15 but we can see what's happening there that the overall performance is actually better on the snapdragon triple eight the exynos is throttling and stayed throttling and it only took literally about 30 seconds to start throttling where the throttling performance where it really actually dropped off was about the five minute mark on the snapdragon triple eight and it has not recovered then but you can see the exynos is starting to throttle a little bit more now interesting they've reversed roles now with the heat so the gpu seems to be the thing that's heating up the snapdragon triple eight chipset and you can see right now looking at the thermals that the hot patch on the front of the screen here is the hottest on the set galaxy s21 ultra there which is almost 43 degrees versus if i have a look at the hottest point here on the me 11 the mi 11 is about 38 or so this is the front of the phones so it's about to finish up that test there's no point me running it for another 30 seconds so i'll just stop the test now we'll take a look at the other side of them and see how they feel there with the thermals oh okay so here we can see definitely rolls have reversed now when it comes to cpu only performance that much hotter on the exynos 2100 the s21 ultra here getting up to about 42 degrees on the rear whereas the mi 11 is only 35 36 maximum so that is quite a big difference now i'm back testing out gen chin impact but this time around i won't use the default highest setting which is capped at 30 frames per second i'll set that to 60. so this is the s21 ultra and we have the me 11 there at the top and i'm just going to load and see which one it should be the same point oh while almost the same point in the map it's just to get an idea of which one is going to load the game the fastest both phones have nothing else running in the background they were both cooled down before starting the games and i started the game at the exact same time as well just just to keep things exactly even here and both of them still have the screen calibrated to 200 nits of brightness manually throughout this video as i mentioned before so the s29 ultra no surprise there did actually load up a little bit faster because it has superior storage so much quicker than the xiaomi it's almost like double check out my review i did the comparison of both of these for that so these settings here now i'm going to go and change that it'll be on now on the maximum default setting but that's not actually the one i want to use now i want to really push both of these phones really hard we've seen before with 3d mark that the gpu throttles more on the exynos so that's probably going to happen again so here we have the default setting okay on the highest so i'll go to where it says fps and simply change that to 60 now and these are going to both of them are going to probably get very very hot so we'll see what happens now it's going to be an hour that i'm going to do this so i'm going to try and use them both at the same time and just rotate between them when moving about and gaming so one of them's not sitting there idle for too long and we'll see just how hot they get both of these phones now after one hour let's skip ahead all right so it's been an hour in fact it's been over one hour and i've been trying to use these phones both at the same time just moving around the map just to not let one of them cool down too much to make it unfair so the back of the xiaomi clearly hotter here we can see we're picking it about 46 degrees and maybe even a little bit higher i have seen it peaked to 50 at times and the back of the s21 ultra here that is only getting up to about 42 degrees here so flipping these phones over now we're in the same point of the map too as well by the way more or less i moved back i can clearly feel to the touch that yes the m11 is a lot hotter so on the front of the screens we're looking here at about 46 here versus about 38 but when i move around on the map and i just walk ahead here i don't even have to do much i can see clearly that it's stuttering at times the frame rate is not steady so it's clearly throttling to keep the thermals under control on the s21 ultra as we saw with my 3d mark results if you remember that if you saw that part of the video that it throttled down about 35 percent so here yeah definitely the snapdragon 8 is so much smoother maintaining a much higher frame rate more steady smoother gameplay and the more you move around here the more heat that is generated and it doesn't take too long to cool down so let's have a look at those thermals again clearly the me11 as i mentioned in the review is a hotter phone and it can peak at even 50 degrees even over 50 degrees celsius i have seen so what can we take away from this we can take away one fact that the exynos the 2100 is an inferior chip it is nowhere near as good as the snapdragon triple eight its cpu cores when stressed will actually get hotter than the cpu cores that are in the triple eight however the gpu is the adreno and it's very hot okay the adreno gpu gets a lot hotter than what they have with the mali gpu with the s21 ultra there yet samsung charges here in europe the same price for the inferior chipset versus the snapdragon triple eight so thank you so much for watching this video do check out my review comparison of both of these phones by going to a lot of other detail and thank you so much for watching this video\n"