Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A784x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
Frequency
2400 MHz
2150 MHz
Cores
8
4
Process
4 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
Instruction set
—
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
—
64 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
2
TDP
—
11 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
25.6 Gb/s
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
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Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 2.2
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
Video capture
2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Hexagon 680
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 2900 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1600 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.4
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Nov 2015
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
SM6435-AA
MSM8996
Graphics
GPU name
—
Adreno 530
GPU frequency
—
624 MHz
Execution units
—
1
Shading units
—
256
Vulkan version
—
1.0
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
11
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
543,361
260,148
Geekbench 6
1,008
323
Geekbench 6
2,479
827
FP32 (float)
—
319
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.