Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Advantages
Lower TDP (4W vs 11W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 1400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)
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