In Europe and other parts of the world the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra will ship an Exynos 990 chip designed by Samsung like the Galaxy S20 launched a few months earlier. However, in China and the United States, the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra should ship a Snapdragon 865+ processor slightly overclocked compared to the S20 which were offered thereunder Snapdragon 865.
Note 20 Ultra (Exynos 990): first benchmark with no good surprises
Obviously this difference in treatment has been making waves among regulars of the brand for several generations . Especially since year after year, the performance of Exynos chips is more and more behind the performance of equivalent Snapdragon chips. And that’s not the only complaint about the Exynos variants.
European users of S20 series smartphones have complained of overheating, sluggish GPU performance during long gaming sessions, and excessive power consumption when “High Performance” mode is activated. Faced with criticism, Samsung would have promised to better optimize the Exynos 990 on Note 20.
As if to compensate for the lack of a new iteration, unlike the American and Chinese variants which run on Snapdragon 865+. However, the first benchmark obviously prepares us for a big disappointment. Nothing is changing in the figures. Everything indicates that the performance of the Note 20 under Exynos 990 will be strictly the same as that of the S20 under Exynos 990.
And there is nothing to suddenly conclude on the slightest optimization that would have a positive impact on performance. Of course, this is only a benchmark, therefore a snapshot – which does not necessarily give a very faithful picture of what this smartphone will really be.
But, as you will have understood, we already know that the performance gap between the Snapdragon and Exynos variants will grow stronger thanks, on the one hand, to the switch to 865+ on the American and Chinese versions, and another choice to keep an Exynos 990 which was already less efficient, at the base, than the Snapdragon 865.
This benchmark seems to confirm that one should not expect Samsung to take something out of its hat to actually make up for this performance gap. Which begins to become less and less understandable, which some will certainly qualify as unacceptable…