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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Snapdragon 860
VS
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Snapdragon 860
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860
50
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860
41
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
75
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860
75
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860
55
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
86

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 8.11% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 45.19% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (980 vs 675 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 96.91% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has -42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 175.19% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,277 K vs 464 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 860
vs
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860
463958
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +175%
1276749
CPU 143028 270867
GPU 179320 567801
Memory 69420 239879
UX 72190 198202
Total score 463958 1276749

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 860
744
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +100%
1490
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 860
2616
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +99%
5198
Image compression 142.85 Mpixels/s 251.3 Mpixels/s
Face detection 20.3 images/s 46.2 images/s
Speech recognition 44.55 words/s 122.9 words/s
Machine learning 46.35 images/s 114.1 images/s
Camera shooting 22.85 images/s 51.7 images/s
HTML 5 1.65 Mnodes/s 5.81 Mnodes/s
SQLite 777.9 Mnodes/s 1510 Mnodes/s

3DMark

27%
SD 860
100%
SD 8 Gen 2
Score: 12967

Stability 98% -
Graphics test 20 FPS 81 FPS
Score 3455 12967

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
HDR HDR10+ HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020

  CPU

86%
SD 860
92%
SD 8 Gen 2
Frequency

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 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2960 MHz 3200 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 1 MB
L3 cache 2 MB 8 MB
Process 7 4
Transistor count - -
TDP 10 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 740
Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 700
GPU frequency 675 MHz 980 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 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5x
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4200 MHz
Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s -
Max size 16 GB 24 GB

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, UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1 x 200 MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
2000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
2500
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
5000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
10000
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
316
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
316
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
1200
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
3500
Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G Snapdragon X70
4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 5000 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 1200 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date April 2019 November 2022
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8150-AC SM8550-AB
Official page Snapdragon 860 official site Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
65%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

47.75


Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
CPU
98%
GPU
75%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

64.75


Review By TenzysTech

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