Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2150MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Released 9 years and 5 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+740%
2186467
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
260148
CPU
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Architecture
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
3200 MHz
Frequency
2150 MHz
8
Cores
4
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
2.75 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
14 nm
-
Transistor count
2
-
TDP
11 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 825
GPU name
Adreno 530
1150 MHz
GPU frequency
624 MHz
-
Execution units
1
-
Shading units
256
24
Max size
8
-
FLOPS
0.3194 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
76.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
UFS 4.0
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X12
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 4200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
5
6.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Apr 2025
Announced
Nov 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8735
Model number
MSM8996
