Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429. 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 4
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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.

• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.95 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.95 GHz 1.95 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• A core
  4x Kryo 385 Gold --
• B core
  4x Kryo 385 Silver --

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 Qualcomm Adreno 504
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 0.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.50 GHz
• Shader
  256 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 0
• Generation
  4 5
• DirectX Version
  11 11
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q2/2018

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)
  Decode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 850. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1866 LPDDR3
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  4 1

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 850, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• Architecture
  Kryo 385 Cortex-A53
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2018 Q3/2018
• Part Number
  SDM850 SDM429