Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 29
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

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 nm).
  • 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

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 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 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 8 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5x
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4 x 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, 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 5000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 10000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G Snapdragon X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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