Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs. 8 cores 2630MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2630MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 8 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 +233%

866863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2150 MHz

Frequency

2630 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 720

624 MHz

GPU frequency

-

1

Execution units

-

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3360 x 1600

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Snapdragon X63

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Nov 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996

Model number

SM7550-AB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

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