Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 . 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Released 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Advantages

Lower TDP (4W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +177%

391

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

141

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +28%

797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

620

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +676%

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

43

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

11 W

TDP

4 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 505

653 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

1

Execution units

1

256

Shading units

48

8

Max size

4

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MSM8940

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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