Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo
Frequency
3000 MHz
2342 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
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Process
4 nm
14 nm
TDP
6 W
11 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
—
64 KB
Transistor count
—
2
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 735
Adreno 530
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
653 MHz
Execution units
2
1
Shading units
256
256
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
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Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Hexagon 680
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.4
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Mar 2024
Aug 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8635
MSM8996 Pro-AC
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,490,645
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Geekbench 6
2,019
391
Geekbench 6
5,570
797
FP32 (float)
1,689
334
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.