Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs Google Tensor G5

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Google Tensor G5

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G5 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.536 TFLOPS vs 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Google Tensor G5 +903%

1536

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Google Tensor G5

CPU

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

1800 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

256 KB

L2 cache

-

28 nm

Process

3 nm

1

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 510

GPU name

-

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

1

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.1536 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon V56

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

X8

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Feb 2015

Announced

Aug 2025

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8956

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Official page

-

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