Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Google Tensor G2

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Google Tensor G2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2850MHz Google Tensor G2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.1424 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2850MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (7W vs 11W)

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Google Tensor G2 +246%

808269

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Google Tensor G2 +203%

1188

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Google Tensor G2 +335%

3468

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Google Tensor G2 +241%

1142

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Google Tensor G2

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X1
2x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2850 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

7 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G710 MP7

653 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

7

256

Shading units

96

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.1424 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Exynos 5300g

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Oct 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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