Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 (SM4250) is a lower mainstream SoC for (Android based) smartphones and tablets. It features eight cores in two clusters. A performance cluster with four ARM Cortex A73 cores and a efficiency cluster with four small ARM Cortex A53 cores. All cores can reach up to 1.8 GHz.

The integrated Qualcomm X11 LTE modem can reach Cat. 13 (400 Mbps max) download and Cat. 12 (150 Mbps max.) upload speeds. The SoC also integrates WiFi 6, however only MIMO 1x1 and therefore the top speed is not very good.

The SD460 is manufactured in the modern 11nm process and should be very energy efficient.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 (SDM636) is a mid-range octa-core SoC with eight custom Kryo 260 cores at up to 1.8 GHz, an Adreno 509 GPU, a LPDDR4-2666 memory controller (1333 MHz) and a X12 LTE (Cat 12/13, 300 Mbps down, 150 Mbps up) modem. Furthermore, the chip supports 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0. It is manufactured in 14nm FinFet. Qualcomm states a 40% faster performance compared to the old Snapdragon 630 (8x ARM Cortex-A53).