Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
3200 MHz
2450 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
2.75 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
-
Process
4 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
-
128 KB
Transistor count
-
3
TDP
-
9 W

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 825
Adreno 540
GPU frequency
1150 MHz
739 MHz
Execution units
-
1
Shading units
-
384
Vulkan version
-
1.0
OpenCL version
-
2.0
DirectX version
-
11

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
29.8 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Hexagon
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- 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

5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 16
Upload speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps

Info

Announced
Apr 2025
Nov 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8735
MSM8998
Official page

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
2,186,467
339,384
Geekbench 6
2,159
415
Geekbench 6
7,227
1,519
FP32 (float)
-
567