Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) vs Allwinner A523
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998)
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform (MSM8998) is a high-end SoC for smartphones (mostly Android based) that was released early 2017. Its one of the first processors that is manufactured in 10 nm (LPE FinFET at Samsung). The SD835 is the successor to the Snapdragon 821.
It integrates 4x Kryo 280 at 2.45 GHz (max) for performance and 4x Kryo 280 at 1.9 GHz (max) for efficiency. Furthermore offers an X16 LTE modem, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad WiFi, a dual-channel 32-Bit 1866 MHz LPDDR4x memory controller, an UFS 2.1 controller, Hexagon 682 DSP, Spectra 180 Image Seonsor Prozessor, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, GLONASS, Baeidou, Galileo Satellite Support.
Allwinner A523
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The Allwinner A523 is a very affordable ARM-based SoC for smartphones and tablets. The eight-core processor presented in 2023 consists of two quad-core clusters, each made up of 4 Cortex-A55 cores.
The faster quad cluster operates at a clock frequency of up to 1.8 GHz and offers 128 KB L2 cache per A55 core, while the second cluster clocks at up to 1.4 GHz and only offers 64 KB L2 cache per core.
In another version of the Allwinner A523, the first quad cluster clocks at up to 2.0 GHz. The ARM Mali-G57 MC1 is used as the graphics unit, which supports OpenGL 3.2, Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0. A XuanTie E906 RISC-V PMU is also integrated.
The Allwinner SoC can control up to 4 GB DDR3/DDR4/LPDDR2/LPDDR3/LPDDR4/LPDDR4X RAM and eMMC 5.1 flash memory. In addition to PCIe 2.1, USB 3.1 Gen. 1 and Gigabit Ethernet are also supported as interfaces. There is also an H264/H265 video decoder (up to 4K at 60 frames per second) and an H264 encoder (up to 4K at 25 frames per second).
The Allwinner A523 is manufactured with a 22 nm structure width.
| Model | Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) | Allwinner A523 |
| Codename | Kryo 280 | Cortex-A55 |
| Series | Qualcomm Snapdragon | |
| Clock | 2450 MHz | 480 - 2000 MHz |
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 8 / 8 4 x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 4 x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 |
| Transistors | >3000 Million | |
| Technology | 10 nm | 22 nm |
| Features | X16 LTE Modem, Adreno 540 GPU, Hexagon DSP, Spectra 180 Camera, Aqstic Audio, IZat Location, Haven Security | H.264 4K25 Encoding, 4K30 decoding, H.265 4K60 decoding, 32 Bit LPDDR4x memory controller, SD 3.0 / eMMC 5.1, Trustzone, Secure Boot, Security ID, USB 3.1, PCIe 2.1, RISC-V 200 MHz |
| iGPU | Qualcomm Adreno 540 ( - 710 MHz) | ARM Mali-G57 MP1 |
| Architecture | ARM | ARM |
| Announced | ||
| Manufacturer | www.qualcomm.com | www.allwinnertech.com |
| L1 Cache | 512 KB | |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | |
| L3 Cache | 1 MB |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) → 100% n=16
Average Benchmarks Allwinner A523 → 44% n=16
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
