Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Google Tensor G3

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Google Tensor G3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 9 cores 2910MHz Google Tensor G3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.4158 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2910MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4.7W vs 11W)

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Google Tensor G3 +336%

1016809

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Google Tensor G3 +351%

1767

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Google Tensor G3 +461%

4477

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Google Tensor G3 +623%

2415

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Google Tensor G3

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X3
4x 2.37 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A510

2342 MHz

Frequency

2910 MHz

4

Cores

9

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

4.7 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G715 MP7

653 MHz

GPU frequency

890 MHz

1

Execution units

7

256

Shading units

192

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.4158 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3700 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Google Tensor G3

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