Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Google Tensor G5

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Google Tensor G5

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G5 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.536 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Google Tensor G5 +520%

1445942

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Google Tensor G5 +359%

1536

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Google Tensor G5

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

2342 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

-

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

1

Execution units

-

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.536 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 2400

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Aug 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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