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Now there are four flagship mobile phone SoC products on the earth: Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei and Apple. This year's flagship corresponds to Snapdragon 845, Samsung Exynos 9810 Kirin 970、 Apple A11 bionic chip.

On March 24, it was reported that TechInsights, a famous overseas chip level disassembly organization, compared the size of the four flagship SoCs. The energy efficiency ratio of SoC directly affects the endurance, while the manufacturing process will affect the chip area and therefore directly affect the chip price. Theoretically, the smaller the chip area, the lower the cost of SoC. However, under the same technical level and process, the size of transistor/chip area is directly related to the performance output.

The most prominent feature of SoC this year is the addition of NPU related to AI and deep learning (represented by A11 bionics and Kirin 970). As a result, the smallest one this year is Apple A11 (of course, this is the only one without baseband, which is understandable). Next is Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845, which is nearly 25% smaller than the Samsung Exynos 910. The Kirin 970 is in the middle.

We roughly measure the technical level of different manufacturers by comparing the performance area The manual measurement summary of is only for reference. Focus:

A11 CPU performance area ratio of the whole site ， GPU and Qualcomm have each other's wins and losses, and the rest are average;
The strongest CPU of Android is Samsung Exynos 9810, but It has paid a huge chip area and is not much ahead, so it is not necessarily strong in technology;
Snapdragon 845 The GPU has the highest efficiency, and the CPU performance area ratio is not poor, Although the performance throne is not guaranteed, the technical strength still exists;
Kirin 970

Detailed analysis:

There is no doubt that the M3 core area of the Exynos 9810 is the largest, followed by the A11 dual core, and the next level is the Snapdragon 845 and Kirin 970 core. Interestingly, the small nucleus of 9810 (A55 framework is good) is the smallest, followed by Kirin 970 (A53), and the small nucleus of Snapdragon 845 has the largest area.
Unfortunately, even so, the highest single core performance of the Exynos 9810 is not comparable to Apple's A11 core. In the CPU part, there is a huge gap between other manufacturers and Apple, which is still at the level of being crushed by seconds.
The GPU is the strongest part of Qualcomm. The Adreno 630 is not only the smallest in area, but also has a performance output that is competitive with A11. As a comparison, Exynos 9810 and Kirin 970, which have the largest GPU area, are both ARM G72 architectures, but their core numbers are different. Although their area is huge, their performance output and power consumption are not satisfactory.