Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

This is a processor manufactured using the Samsung 14nm process, announced on August 1, 2016. It features 4 cores, operates at a frequency of 2342MHz, has a TDP of 11W, and integrates the Adreno 530 GPU.

CPU

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Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Frequency

2342 MHz

Cores

4

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

L1 cache

L2 cache

1 MB

Process

14 nm

Transistor count

2

TDP

11 W

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

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GPU name

Adreno 530

GPU frequency

653 MHz

Execution units

1

Shading units

256

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

Vulkan version

1.0

OpenCL version

2.0

DirectX version

11

FLOPS

334.3 GFLOPS

Memory

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Memory type

LPDDR4

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

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Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

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4G support

LTE Cat. 12

5G support

No

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Wi-Fi

5

Bluetooth

4.1

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

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Announced

Aug 2016

Class

Flagship

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Rankings

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AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 8C @ 2000 MHz

235607

HiSilicon Kirin 710A 8C @ 2000 MHz

234102

Mediatek Helio P60 8C @ 2000 MHz

233519

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 4C @ 2342 MHz

233076

Samsung Exynos 8890 8C @ 2300 MHz

228887

MediaTek Helio P65 8C @ 2000 MHz

227668

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 8C @ 2200 MHz

225927

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 8C @ 2360 MHz

408

Mediatek MT6768 Helio P65 C @

400

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa C @

399

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 4C @ 2342 MHz

391

HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C @ 2360 MHz

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 8C @ 2000 MHz

384

MediaTek Helio P65 8C @ 2000 MHz

377

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

NVIDIA Tegra X1 C @

808

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 8C @ 2000 MHz

799

MediaTek Helio P20 8C @ 2300 MHz

798

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 4C @ 2342 MHz

797

Qualcomm MSM8996 Pro AB Snapdragon 821 C @

767

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 8C @ 1800 MHz

763

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 6C @ 1800 MHz

750

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 8C @ 2200 MHz

366

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 8C @ 2000 MHz

358

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 8C @ 2200 MHz

358

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 4C @ 2342 MHz

334

MediaTek Dimensity 800 8C @ 2000 MHz

332

HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C @ 2360 MHz

331

MediaTek Dimensity 720 8C @ 2000 MHz

326

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