Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3667 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +83%

428143

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +136%

926

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +167%

2128

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +9%

366

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2200 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 613

GPU name

Adreno 530

955 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

2

Execution units

1

96

Shading units

256

-

Max size

8

0.3667 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X61

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 900 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2023

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM4450

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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