Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 630. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Qualcomm Snapdragon 630
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 5

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.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  1.36 GHz 1.80 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.80 GHz 2.20 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

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 530 Qualcomm Adreno 508
• GPU frequency
  0.51 GHz 0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.51 GHz 0.65 GHz
• Shader
  256 128
• Generation
  5 5
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1333 LPDDR4-1333
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite and Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Architecture
  Kryo Cortex-A53
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q2/2017
• Part Number
  MSM8996 Lite SDM630