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Snapdragon 865 vs Snapdragon 855 Plus

Snapdragon 865
VS
Snapdragon 855 Plus
Snapdragon 865
Snapdragon 855 Plus

We compared two 8-core processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 (with Adreno 650 graphics) and 855 Plus (Adreno 640). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v11
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Gaming
  7. Specs
  8. Comments (4)

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
DeviceFacts Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size than the Snapdragon 855 Plus
  • Supports 29% higher memory bandwidth (44 against 34.13 GB/s)
  • Shows better (up to 14%) AnTuTu 11 score – 978K vs 859K
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
  • Higher GPU frequency (~15%)
  • Performs 15% better in floating-point computations

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 865
vs
Snapdragon 855 Plus

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Snapdragon 865 +14%
978910
Snapdragon 855 Plus
859084
CPU 385127 319447
GPU 148169 140848
Memory 166070 160806
UX 279544 237983
Total score 978910 859084
Samples [104 tests] [3 tests]
Submit your AnTuTu result

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Asset compression 149.1 MB/sec 130.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 87.2 pages/sec 71.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 125.3 Mpixels/sec 92.4 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 77 images/sec 62.4 images/sec
HDR 106.3 Mpixels/sec 85.4 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 11 images/sec 9.03 images/sec
Photo processing 32.7 images/sec 31.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.29 Mpixels/sec 3.8 Mpixels/sec
Samples 52 tests 159 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Background blur 4.53 images/sec 4.59 images/sec
Face detection 1.97 images/sec 1.99 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.22 Gpixels/sec 0.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.02 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 9.05 Gpixels/sec 9.85 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 567.3 FPS 507.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Samples 34 tests 2 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score 1110 -
Stability 99% -
Graphics test 6 FPS -

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 9557 -
Video editing score 5874 -
Data manipulation score 8658 -
Photo editing score 29642 -
Writing score 14782 -
Phones tested 14 models -

Gaming

Table of average FPS and graphics settings in mobile games
PUBG Mobile 60 FPS
[Ultra]		 39 FPS
[Ultra]
Call of Duty: Mobile 61 FPS
[Ultra]		 58 FPS
[Ultra]
Fortnite 30 FPS
[Ultra]		 29 FPS
[Medium]
Shadowgun Legends - 53 FPS
[Ultra]
World of Tanks Blitz 60 FPS
[Ultra]		 60 FPS
[Ultra]
Genshin Impact 60 FPS
[Ultra]		 39 FPS
[Ultra]
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 59 FPS
[Ultra]		 58 FPS
[Ultra]
Device Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro
1080 x 2340		 Realme X3 Superzoom
1080 x 2400
We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-11 -> FenixistarkAnTuTu 121134088
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-05 (Gigante Supremo)AnTuTu 121111940
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 (MAPKIS)AnTuTu 121102560
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (the kroco's)AnTuTu 121088974
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-22 (mptech)AnTuTu 11995050
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-24 (Ray white)Geekbench 7 CPU939 / 2938
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-10 (Jay Bee)AnTuTu 11793601
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-07 (Gadgi)AnTuTu 11859084
πŸ“˜ 2023-11-29 (Archie)Geekbench 6 GPU2934
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 855 Plus

CPU

Architecture 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)		 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Cores 8 8
Frequency 2840 MHz 2960 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 512 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 1 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
Process 7 nanometers 7 nanometers
Transistor count 10.3 billion 6.7 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 650 Adreno 640
Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
GPU frequency 587 MHz 675 MHz
Pipelines 3 3
Shading units 256 256
Total shaders 768 768
FLOPS 901.6 Gigaflops 1036.8 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12.1 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Hexagon 690

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gb/s 34.13 Gb/s
Max size 16 GB 16 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9		 - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV		 - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem X55 X24 LTE, X50 5G
4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 20
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3000 Mbps Up to 1240 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.1 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced December 2019 July 2019
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8250-AB SM8150-AC
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 official site Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus official site
Successor - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 - Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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Comments

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Stephen Firestone August 29, 2021 at 03:42 PM
Something didn't look right about several of the percentages vs. the displayed scores. AnTuTu was displayed as 22% faster but the math based upon the scores says 19%. Also the Geekbench 5 numbers for multi core performance show 22% but the math based upon the scores shows 19%, which matches the single threaded performance. 3% may not seem like much of an error in the numbers but in the context of the results between 22% and 19%, it's a 14% difference in the displayed result vs. the math.
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root August 29, 2021 at 06:20 PM
Hi, Stephen Can you tell how do you get 19% when comparing 581,243 and 475,782?
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Daniel November 23, 2022 at 09:17 PM
Root, Looks like he divided the difference by the newer benchmark instead of the older benchmark. Fail.
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BAF40 July 8, 2020 at 03:10 AM
The Adreno 650 has 1,024 ALU's while the Adreno 640 has 768 ALU's. The Adreno 630 has 512 while the Adreno 530 has 256 ALU's. Qualcomm started giving incremental updates to the there Adreno GPU's by upping the ALU count by 50%. We knew the Adreno 330 had 128 ALU's from the SD800 and also the SD808 but the Adreno 418 was running on a LPDDR3-933(1866) with 14.9GB/s memory bandwidth and the Adreno 420 in the SD805 had a CPU clock frequency of 2.7GHz and a 128-bit memory controller using LPDDR3-1600(3200) with 25.6GB/s memory bandwidth which helped the GPU gain even more performance. The Adreno 430 in the SD810 had 192 ALU's. But, it wasn't until the SD820/821 when they started to use 256 ALU's and add 50% (256 ALU's) in increments of 256. So now we know how many ALU's Qualcomm is using when they say 50% more ALU's. We can measure FP32 compute in Gflops and now Teraflops thanks to the SD855+ and SD865. Also, just by using basic calculations can measure them but, The question is. What will the SD875 bring to the table.
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