Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Last updated: 2024-04-12

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2		AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
CPU comparison Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 or AMD Ryzen 7 4800H - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.15 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 was released in Q4/2018. The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H was released in Q1/2020.

Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)	Family	AMD Ryzen 7 (68)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (2)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 4000H (6)
2	Generation	3
Kryo 495	Architecture	Renoir (Zen 2)
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 is 3.15 GHz while the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H has 8 CPU cores and 16 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H is at 2.90 GHz (4.20 GHz).
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
8	Cores	8
8	Threads	16
hybrid (big.LITTLE)	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
3.15 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Gold	A-Core	2.90 GHz (4.20 GHz)
1.80 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Silver	B-Core	--
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Qualcomm AI engine	AI hardware	--
Hexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 or AMD Ryzen 7 4800H has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Qualcomm Adreno 690	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
0.25 GHz	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
0.59 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	1.60 GHz
6	GPU Generation	9
7 nm	Technology	7 nm
0	Max. displays	3
--	Compute units	7
--	Shader	448
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
--	Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
12.0	DirectX Version	12

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Qualcomm Adreno 690	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 can use up to 32 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 68.2 GB/s. The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 51.2 GB/s.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
LPDDR4X-4266	Memory	LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200
32 GB	Max. Memory	64 GB
8 (Octa Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
68.2 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s
No	ECC	Yes
--	L2 Cache	--
2.00 MB	L3 Cache	8.00 MB
--	PCIe version	3.0
--	PCIe lanes	12
--	PCIe Bandwidth	11.8 GB/s
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 is 7 W, while the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H has a TDP of 45 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
7 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	45 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	54 W
--	TDP down	35 W
--	Tjunction max.	105 °C
Technical details The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H is manufactured in 7 nm and has a 8.00 MB cache.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
7 nm	Technology	7 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
--	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
--	Socket	FP6
None	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
No	AES-NI	Yes
Android, Windows 10 (ARM)	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2018	Release date	Q1/2020
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 (66%)

AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 (36%)

AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	760 (66%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	1147 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	2855 (36%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	7886 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	72 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	602 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	1242 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	10943 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	1558 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	7215 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	472 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	3847 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 Qualcomm Adreno 690 @ 0.59 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 1.60 GHz	1433 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	191 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	18802 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	500 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz	4817 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	197 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	1712 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	7 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz	0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Lenovo Flex 5G Lenovo Yoga C 5G Samsung Galaxy Book S	Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA401IU-HE017T ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV

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