Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . 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 0.148 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2342MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +84%

233076

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +125%

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2342 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

4

Cores

4

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

11 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 330

653 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

1

Execution units

1

256

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

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

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MSM8974 v3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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