Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 4
• Predecessor
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 6 / 12
• Core architecture
  hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) normal
• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 3.50 GHz
• Overclocking
  No Yes

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 730 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.84 GHz --
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Generation
  7 --
• Direct X
  12.1 --
• Technology
  4 nm --
• Release date
  Q1/2022 --

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  -- 4.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  -- 65 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv9-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  -- SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Technology
  4 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2022
• Part Number
  SM8450 --