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Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 vs Microsoft SQ2

Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 on one side and the Microsoft SQ2 on the other side. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 8 cores, 8 threads, a maximum frequency of 2.8GHz. The second is used on the tablet segment, it has a total of 8 cores, 8 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 3.1 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values ​​obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15.

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Specifications:

Processor		Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888				Microsoft SQ2
Market		Smartphone				Tablet
Family		Snapdragon				Snapdragon
Part number(s), S-Spec		SM8350, SDM888				SQ2
Release date		Q1 2021				Q3 2020
Lithography		5 nm (5LPE)				7 nm
Cores		8				8
Threads		8				8
Base frequency		1.8 GHz				1.8 GHz
Turbo frequency		2.8 GHz				3.1 GHz
Energy cores		4x Qualcomm Kryo 680 Silver @ 1.8 GHz				4x Qualcomm Kryo 495 @ 1.80 GHz
High performance cores		1x Qualcomm Kryo 680 Prime @ 2.84 GHz 3x Qualcomm Kryo 680 Gold @ 2.42 GHz				4x Qualcomm Kryo 495 @ 3.14 GHz
Cache memory		4 MB				2 MB
Max memory capacity		16 GB				16 GB
Memory types		LPDDR5-3200				LPDDR4X-2133
Max # of memory channels		4				8
Max memory bandwidth		50 GB/s				68.26 GB/s
TDP		10 W				9 W
GPU integrated graphics		Qualcomm Adreno 660				Qualcomm Adreno 690
GPU execution units		2				2
GPU shading units		512				764
GPU base clock rate		840 MHz				-
GPU max clock rate		840 MHz				585 MHz
GPU FP32 floating point		1,720.3 GFLOPS				-
AnTuTu		696,018				286,261
(SGEMM) GFLOPS performance		144 GFLOPS				141.2 GFLOPS
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We can better compare what are the technical differences between the two processors. We see that the two processors have an equivalent number of cores, the turbo frequency of Microsoft SQ2 is bigger, that the thermal dissipation power of Microsoft SQ2 is less. The Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 was designed earlier.

Performances :

Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.

	AnTuTu - Total score
Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888#ad	696,018
Microsoft SQ2#ad	286,261

The difference is 143%.

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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.

AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.

	Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Android & Windows
Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888#ad	1,038 3,359
Microsoft SQ2#ad	789 3,092

In single core, the difference is 32%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 9%.

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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.

Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.

Equivalence:

Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 Intel equivalentQualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 AMD equivalentMicrosoft SQ2 Intel equivalentMicrosoft SQ2 AMD equivalent

See also:

Microsoft SQ1

Smartphones with the processor Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888:

Asus ROG Phone 5Samsung Galaxy S21 5G SD888Samsung Galaxy S21 SD888Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G SD888Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G SD888Xiaomi Mi 11