Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2150MHz)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +11%

260148

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +21%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +3%

827

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +4%

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2150 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

4

Cores

4

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

11 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 530

624 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

1

Execution units

1

256

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

X12

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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