Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 29
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 37
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU 143028 256787
GPU 179320 272332
Memory 69420 177778
UX 72190 159966
Total score 463958 866863
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 12.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (2960 vs 2630 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 33.32% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (34.13 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 86.84% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (867 K vs 464 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz -
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

70%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 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)
    1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.6-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 720
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Yes
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, 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 X63
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • 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 7 Gen 3

CPU
44%
GPU
37%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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