Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
2x 3.8 GHz –6x 3.32 GHz –
Frequency
1800 MHz
3800 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
14 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
2
-
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 509
Adreno 829
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1200 MHz
Execution units
1
-
Shading units
128
512
Vulkan version
1.0
1.4
OpenCL version
2.0
3.0
DirectX version
11
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
5.3 Gbit/s
76.8 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
3840 x 2540
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 13
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Oct 2017
Nov 2025
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
SDM636
SM8845
Official page

AI

NPU
-
Hexagon

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
220,696
3,561,559
Geekbench 6
295
2,749
Geekbench 6
1,088
9,860
FP32 (float)
184
2,457