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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Apple A19 Pro

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 2x 4.26 GHz –4x 2.51 GHz –
Frequency 2342 MHz 4260 MHz
Cores 4 6
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 1408 KB
L2 cache 0 22 MB
Process 14 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 2
TDP 11 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
L3 cache 32 MB
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 530 Apple A19 Pro GPU
GPU frequency 653 MHz 1620 MHz
Execution units 1 96
Shading units 256 128
Vulkan version 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 11
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4 LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 76.8 GB/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 680
Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 28MP, 2x 13MP 1x 48MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV - AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7
Bluetooth 4.1 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Aug 2016 Sep 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number MSM8996 Pro-AC
Official page Official Link ↗
AI
NPU Neural Engine
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core 391 4019
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 797 11054
FP32 (float) 334 2488