Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2910MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7817 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2910MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 +377%

1112797

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 +334%

1699

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 +454%

4419

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 +433%

1781

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.49 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2342 MHz

Frequency

2910 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

10.2

11 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 725

653 MHz

GPU frequency

580 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

768

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7817 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3360 x 1600

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

X62

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Mar 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

SM7475-AB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

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