Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) SoCs by Qualcomm. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 19
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 99
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 39
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 95
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU 143028 635739
GPU 179320 1237734
Memory 69420 460296
UX 72190 457187
Total score 463958 2790956
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 62.96% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1100 vs 675 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 150.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (5333 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 501.55% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (2,791 K vs 464 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) Support 150.22% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (85.4 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 3155

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 9723

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 140 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

107%
Base Frequency

4320 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
    6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 12 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 830
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 800
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 768
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
  • DirectX version 12 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 85.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2540
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G Snapdragon X80
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed 2000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 1200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
24%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

CPU
98%
GPU
99%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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