Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.148 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2200MHz)
Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)
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