Snapdragon 888 vs Snapdragon 820
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (Adreno 660) with the older 4-core Snapdragon 820 (Adreno 530) 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 888
- Performs 3.5x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 3.3x) AnTuTu 9 score – 809K vs 243K
- Announced 5-years and 2-months later
- Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 14 nm)
- Has 4 more cores
- Supports 72% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 29.8 GB/s)
- 29% higher CPU clock speed (2840 vs 2200 MHz)
- Higher GPU frequency (~35%)
- Better instruction set architecture
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 211249 | 62161 |
| GPU | 304417 | 87560 |
| Memory | 139986 | 34897 |
| UX | 152836 | 58362 |
| Total score | 809833 | 243751 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 177.1 Mpixels/s | 49.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 26.5 images/s | 8.37 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 67.7 words/s | 16.9 words/s |
| Machine learning | 59.9 images/s | 17.6 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 37.5 images/s | 11.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 3.96 Mnodes/s | 0.5253 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 1060 Krows/s | 227.5 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 91% | - |
| Graphics test | 30 FPS | 4 FPS |
| Score | 5107 | 789 |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 83 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 26 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Shadowgun Legends | 89 FPS [Ultra] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 112 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Genshin Impact | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Device | Asus Zenfone 8 1080 x 2400 |
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We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 820CPU
| 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 2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo |
| Cores | 8 | 4 |
| Frequency | 2840 MHz | 2200 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.4-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 32 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | - |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 14 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | 2 billion |
| TDP | 10 W | 11 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 660 | Adreno 530 |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Adreno 500 |
| GPU frequency | 840 MHz | 624 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 2 |
| Shading units | 512 | 256 |
| FLOPS | 1720 Gigaflops | 498 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 3200 MHz | 1866 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 29.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 780 | Hexagon 680 |
| Storage type | UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP | 1x 28MP, 2x 13MP |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X60 | X12 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 22 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 2500 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 316 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 4.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS |
Info
| Announced | December 2020 | November 2015 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8350 | MSM8996 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 official site | Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 official site |
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