Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 678 19
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
CPU 101216 270867
GPU 51346 567801
Memory 48181 239879
UX 82701 198202
Total score 283444 1276749
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 45.45% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 15.98% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (980 vs 845 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 96.91% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (4200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 63.64% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (4 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 350.44% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (1,277 K vs 283 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10 HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 11 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Adreno 740
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 980 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5x
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1 x 200 MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 Snapdragon X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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