Product Compare

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency 3200 MHz 4610 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 2.75 MB 24 MB
L3 cache 8 MB 8 MB
Process 4 nm 3 nm
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
L1 cache 1792 KB
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 825 Adreno 840
GPU frequency 1150 MHz 1200 MHz
Shading units 512
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 4800 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 76.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU Hexagon Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type UFS 4.0 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4200 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 7
Bluetooth 6.0 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
4G support LTE Cat. 24
Info
Announced Apr 2025 Sep 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8735 SM8850
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 2186467 3115282
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2159 3834
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 7227 12396