Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoCs by Qualcomm. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 678 19
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 39
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
CPU 101216 114597
GPU 51346 93082
Memory 48181 68776
UX 82701 111637
Total score 283444 388092
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 10.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 678 has 2.42% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (845 vs 825 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 678 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 36.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (388 K vs 283 K ).
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Support 14.09% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (17 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 620

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 1835

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A -
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Adreno 619
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

CPU
22%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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