Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 vs Snapdragon 7 Plus 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 888 43
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 54
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 62
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
CPU 211734 246704
GPU 306250 352464
Memory 133870 176323
UX 156641 171430
Total score 808495 946921
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 44.83% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (840 vs 580 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 2.46% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (2910 vs 2840 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 17.12% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (947 K vs 808 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 1656

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 4482

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability 85%

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz QHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 3360 x 1600
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2910 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)
    1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.49 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Adreno 725
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 580 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1720 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.2
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 7 Plus Gen 2

CPU
54%
GPU
46%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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