Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Snapdragon 685
CPU 101216 81894
GPU 51346 39122
Memory 48181 77991
UX 82701 71216
Total score 283444 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 4.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (283 K vs 270 K).
  • Snapdragon 678 Support 53.85% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (600 vs 390 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 27.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2800 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 685 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Snapdragon 685 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 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-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 610
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 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 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support No No
  • 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 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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