Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 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 625 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +49%

233076

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +169%

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2000 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Adreno 530

650 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

1

Execution units

1

96

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X9

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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