Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 3
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 leads the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 by 67% on AnTuTu v11 (17.56 Lakhs vs 10.49 Lakhs) and is 69% faster in Geekbench single-core and 63% in multi-core. Where the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 does better: newer Arm instruction set (ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv9-A).
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 3: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 leads
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34% higher peak CPU clock
3.36 GHz vs 2.5 GHz
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4x larger L3 cache
8 MB vs 2 MB
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4.1x more GPU compute power
2208.8 GFLOPS vs 537.6 GFLOPS
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Newer RAM type
LPDDR5X vs LPDDR5
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31% faster RAM
4200 MHz vs 3200 MHz
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67% higher AnTuTu v11 score
17.56 Lakhs vs 10.49 Lakhs
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63% faster in Geekbench multi-core
5,037 vs 3,096
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69% faster in Geekbench single-core
1,942 vs 1,152
Where the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 leads
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv9-A
AnTuTu and Geekbench scores
AnTuTu v11 Total
+67% fasterGeekbench Single-Core
+69% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+63% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- November 2022
- August 2024
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Mid-range
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- Qualcomm
- Model Number
- SM8550-AB, SM8550-AC2
- SM7635
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 8
- Core Configuration
- 1x 3.2 GHz - Cortex X3
2x 2.8 GHz - Cortex A715
2x 2.8 GHz - Cortex A710
3x 2 GHz - Cortex A510 - 1x 2.5GHz - Cortex-A720
3x 2.4GHz - Cortex-A720
4x 1.8GHz - Cortex-A520 - Max Frequency
- 3360 MHz
- 2500 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9-A
- ARMv9.2-A
- Process Node
- 4 nm
- 4 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 1 MB
- 1 MB
- L3 Cache
- 8 MB
- 2 MB
- TDP
- 8.5 W
- 7 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 740
- Adreno 810
- GPU Frequency
- 680 MHz
- 1050 MHz
- Shading Units
- 1024
- 256
- FLOPS
- 2208.8 GFLOPS
- 537.6 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- Yes
- No
- NPU
- Hexagon NPU
- Hexagon NPU
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
- Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5X
- LPDDR5
- RAM Frequency
- 4200 MHz
- 3200 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x16-bit
- 2x 16-bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 67.2 GB/s
- 25.6 Gb/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 16 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
- UFS 3.1
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 200 MP
- 200 MP
- Video Capture
- 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS, 720p at 960FPS
- 4K at 30 FPS, 1080p at 120 FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- 4K
- Full HD+
- Video Playback
- 8K HDR at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 30 FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1
- H.264, H.265 (HEVC), VP9, HEIF/HEIC
- Audio Codecs
- AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV,
Connectivity
- Modem
- Snapdragon X70 5G
- -
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 10 Gbps
- 2.9 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 3.5 Gbps
- 1.6 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6E
- Bluetooth
- 5.3
- 5.4
- Navigation
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC
Links
Benchmark results
Every AnTuTu and Geekbench result for both chips. Green marks the higher score.
AnTuTu v11
- Total
- 17,56,001
- 10,49,495
- CPU
- 5,58,984
- 4,11,040
- GPU
- 4,39,885
- 1,79,303
- Memory
- 3,01,880
- 1,79,879
- UX
- 4,55,252
- 2,79,273
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 1,942
- 1,152
- Multi-Core
- 5,037
- 3,096
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+30 pointsCPU Score
+20 pointsGPU Score
+44 pointsMemory Score
+26 pointsMore Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 comparisons
Each chip against rivals with a similar overall score.
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