Unisoc T606 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Unisoc T606 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

Unisoc T606 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0832 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 1600MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Unisoc T606 +9%

256256

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Unisoc T606

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +5%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Unisoc T606 +75%

1397

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Unisoc T606

83

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +302%

334

Unisoc T606

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

1600 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP1

GPU name

Adreno 530

650 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

1

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.0832 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2160 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP, 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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

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

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Aug 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Unisoc T606

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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