Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 3.8 GHz –6x 3.32 GHz –
4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Frequency
3800 MHz
2800 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
Process
3 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
—
128 KB
L2 cache
—
0
L3 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
3
TDP
—
9 W
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 829
Adreno 630
GPU frequency
1200 MHz
710 MHz
Shading units
512
256
Vulkan version
1.4
1.1
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12.1
Execution units
—
2
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gb/s
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2540
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 192MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Hexagon 685
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Announced
Nov 2025
Dec 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8845
SDM845
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,561,559
448,489
Geekbench 6
2,749
566
Geekbench 6
9,860
2,075
FP32 (float)
2,457
727
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.