Overview - Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 51
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 62
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 6.84% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3200 vs 2995 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 Plus (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 29.65% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1,098 K vs 847 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 0.56% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (905 vs 900 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

3DMark

Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2021 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 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 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 6 MB 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units - 2
  • Shading units - 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 10240 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Snapdragon X65 X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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