Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Snapdragon 690
CPU 101216 110385
GPU 51346 76645
Memory 48181 63724
UX 82701 94636
Total score 283444 345390
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 10.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 12.43% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (950 vs 845 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 27.27% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (8 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 21.85% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (345 K vs 283 K ).
  • Snapdragon 690 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 128
  • 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 14.9 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 692
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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