Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 480 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 860 29
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 143028 103367
GPU 179320 83956
Memory 69420 61234
UX 72190 96732
Total score 463958 345289
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2960 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.37% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (464 K vs 345 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 100.76% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (34.13 vs 17 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 150.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2000 vs 800 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 22.22% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (825 vs 675 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 480 Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 480 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 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 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A -
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 619
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 1037 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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