Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4301 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 11W)

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2300MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 +114%

500600

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 +28%

430

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2300 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

6 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

4 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 619

GPU name

Adreno 530

840 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

2

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

12

Max size

8

0.4301 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 108MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X51

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 1500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2024

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6375-AC

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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