Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 101216 216591
GPU 51346 324286
Memory 48181 138188
UX 82701 167760
Total score 283444 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 36.14% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2995 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 7.10% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (905 vs 845 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 54.55% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (5 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 198.76% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (847 K vs 283 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (51.2 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, 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

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 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)
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 11 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 512
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops 1853 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K 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 X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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