Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4224 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )
More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (3W vs 11W)
Released 4 years and 5 months late