Product Compare

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 3.8 GHz –6x 3.32 GHz – 4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Frequency 3800 MHz 2450 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
Process 3 nm 10 nm
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
L1 cache 128 KB
L2 cache 0
Transistor count 3
TDP 9 W
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 829 Adreno 540
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 739 MHz
Shading units 512 384
Vulkan version 1.4 1.0
OpenCL version 3.0 2.0
DirectX version 12.1 11
Execution units 1
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 76.8 Gb/s 29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 682
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 16
5G support Yes No
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 5
Bluetooth 6.0 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Announced Nov 2025 Nov 2016
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8845 MSM8998
Official page Official Link ↗ Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 3561559 339384
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2749 415
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 9860 1519
FP32 (float) 2457 567