Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 3.8 GHz –6x 3.32 GHz –
1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Frequency
3800 MHz
2840 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
512 KB
L2 cache
—
0
L3 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
6.7
TDP
—
6 W
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 829
Adreno 640
GPU frequency
1200 MHz
585 MHz
Shading units
512
384
Vulkan version
1.4
1.1
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12.1
Execution units
—
2
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gb/s
34.13 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
UFS 3.0
Max display resolution
3840 x 2540
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Hexagon 690
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 20
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 5000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 1240 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Announced
Nov 2025
Dec 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8845
SM8150
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,561,559
592,031
Geekbench 6
2,749
939
Geekbench 6
9,860
2,855
FP32 (float)
2,457
898
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.