Snapdragon 450 vs Snapdragon 429
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 (Adreno 506) with the newer 4-core Snapdragon 429 (Adreno 504) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
- Performs 2.6x better in floating-point computations
- Has 4 more cores
- Higher GPU frequency (~44%)
- Supports 17% higher memory bandwidth (7.46 against 6.4 GB/s)
- Shows better (up to 6%) AnTuTu 9 score – 100K vs 94K
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 429
- Announced 1-year later
- Has a smaller size transistor (12 versus 14 nm)
- 11% higher CPU clock speed (2000 vs 1800 MHz)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 33673 | 36510 |
| GPU | 14222 | 5369 |
| Memory | 23142 | 30988 |
| UX | 29542 | 21174 |
| Total score | 100838 | 94729 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 68.9 Mpixels/s | 37.4 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 9.02 images/s | 3.81 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 19.1 words/s | 11.7 words/s |
| Machine learning | 11.9 images/s | 8.12 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 5.27 images/s | 2.52 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.32 Mnodes/s | 0.6702 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 279 Krows/s | 183.2 Krows/s |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 450 and Snapdragon 429CPU
| Architecture | 8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53 | 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 8 | 4 |
| Frequency | 1800 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 12 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | - |
| TDP | 3 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 506 | Adreno 504 |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | Adreno 500 |
| GPU frequency | 600-650 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Execution units | 1 | 1 |
| Shading units | 96 | 96 |
| FLOPS | 124 Gigaflops | 48.6 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 11.1 | 11.1 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR3 |
| Memory frequency | 933 MHz | 933 MHz |
| Bus | 1x 32 Bit | 1x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 7.46 Gbit/s | 6.4 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 546 | Hexagon 536 |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 1920 x 1200 | 1600 x 900 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 21MP, 2x 13MP | 1x 16MP, 2x 8MP |
| Video capture | 1K at 60FPS | 1K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 1080p at 60FPS | 1080p at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X9 | X6 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 7 | LTE Cat. 5 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 300 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 75 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.1 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS |
Info
| Announced | June 2017 | June 2018 |
| Class | Low end | Low end |
| Model number | SDM450 | SDM429 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 official site | Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 official site |
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