Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Tensor G2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Tensor G2 SoCs by Qualcomm and Google respectively. 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 480 Plus 20
Tensor G2 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Tensor G2 36
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tensor G2 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Tensor G2 52
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Tensor G2
CPU 103367 203226
GPU 83956 298514
Memory 61234 114682
UX 96732 157662
Total score 345289 774084
Key Differences

Pros of Google Tensor G2

  • Tensor G2 has 29.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2850 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Tensor G2 has 3.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (850 vs 825 MHz).
  • Tensor G2 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Tensor G2 has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Tensor G2 has 124.18% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (774 K vs 345 K ).
  • Tensor G2 Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Tensor G2 1059

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Tensor G2 3251

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 168.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 24.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 69.4

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 71.2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 31.2

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 2.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Tensor G2 1010

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability 72%

Graphics test 38 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz Ultra HD(4K)
  • Max On-Display Resolution 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X1
    2x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 7 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G710 MP7
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 7
  • Shading units 128 112
  • FLOPS - 1153 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 Exynos 5300g
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Google Tensor G2

CPU
39%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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