Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +49%

389314

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +134%

756

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +115%

1783

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +20%

384

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

2300 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

8 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 618

GPU name

Adreno 530

750 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

2

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.384 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

384 kHz/32 bit

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X15

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 15

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 800 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2020

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM7125

Model number

MSM8996

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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