Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +87%

391

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 +14%

916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

11 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 506

653 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

1

256

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 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

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF

X12

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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