Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Qualcomm Snapdragon
• Generation
  5 1
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Qualcomm Snapdragon 7/8 Gen 1

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 630 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Shader
  256
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  4
• Technology
  10 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1866 LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  4 4

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv9-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  0.51 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo 385 Cortex-X2 / -A710 / -A510
• Technology
  10 nm 4 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q2/2022
• Part Number
  SDM845 SM8475