Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 vs Snapdragon 678 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 680 16
Snapdragon 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Snapdragon 678
CPU 81097 101216
GPU 38425 51346
Memory 68438 48181
UX 63600 82701
Total score 251560 283444
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 9.09% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2400 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 31.83% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1114 vs 845 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 680 Support 14.09% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (17 vs 14.9 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 12.67% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (283 K vs 252 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90 Hz FHD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - 16 KB
  • L2 cache - 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Adreno 612
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 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 17 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Hexagon 685
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

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