Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 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 888 43
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 211734 103367
GPU 306250 83956
Memory 133870 61234
UX 156641 96732
Total score 808495 345289
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 29.09% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2840 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 1.82% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (840 vs 825 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 134.15% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (808 K vs 345 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (51.2 vs 17 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 212.50% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2500 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Snapdragon 480 Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Snapdragon 480 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Snapdragon 480 Plus

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A -
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Adreno 619
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1720 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 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type 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 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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