Overview - Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs Snapdragon 860

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 860 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 8 Plus Gen 1 49
Snapdragon 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 51
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 62
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Snapdragon 860
CPU 243697 143028
GPU 478120 179320
Memory 191931 69420
UX 184166 72190
Total score 1097914 463958
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 8.11% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (900 vs 675 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 136.64% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,098 K vs 464 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Support 50.01% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (51.2 vs 34.13 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Support 25.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (2500 vs 2000 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 QHD @ 60Hz
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2021 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    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)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.1-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 6 MB 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Adreno 640
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 675 MHz
  • Execution units - 2
  • Shading units - 384
  • FLOPS - 1037 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon 690
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X65 X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

CPU
49%
GPU
51%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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