Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2342MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

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

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +84%

233076

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +125%

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2500 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

4

Cores

4

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

28 nm

Process

14 nm

1

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

Adreno 530

578 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

1

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8974 v3

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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