Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
125245
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3115282
CPU44542679852
GPU285371283493
Memory22889646515
UX29277505422
NanoReview Score1252453115282
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
205
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3393
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
698
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
11515
File Compressionn/a421.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browsern/a268 pages/s
PDF Renderingn/a300.8 MP/sec
Background Blurn/a42.4 frames/s
Photo Processingn/a115.6 frames/s
Image Detectionn/a353.8 frames/s
HDRn/a339.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracingn/a14.1 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture 4x 2.5 GHz – Krait - 2x 4.6 GHz -
- 6x 3.63 GHz -
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 4 8
Frequency 2500 4600
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB n/a
L2 cache 2 MB n/a
L3 Cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 28 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 1 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 330 n/a
Architecture Adreno 300 n/a
GPU Frequency 578 MHz n/a
Execution Units 1 n/a
Shader Units 128 n/a
Total shader 128 n/a
FLOPS 148 GFLOPS 3990 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 n/a
OpenCL 1.2 n/a
DirectX 11 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Hexagon Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR3 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 933 MHz n/a
Bus 2x32 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 4 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type eMMC 5.0 - UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution 2560x2048 pixels n/a
Camera 1x21 pixels 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 5 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support No Yes
Download speed Up to 150 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 50 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 5 7
Bluetooth version 4.0 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced February, 2014 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename MSM8974 v3 SM8850

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 the clear winner in this comparison.

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