Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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 680 16
Snapdragon 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Snapdragon 690
CPU 81097 110385
GPU 38425 76645
Memory 68438 63724
UX 63600 94636
Total score 251560 345390
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 20.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 17.26% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1114 vs 950 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 680 Support 14.09% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (17 vs 14.9 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 37.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (345 K vs 252 K ).
  • Snapdragon 690 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
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+ @ 90 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • 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

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 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 - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 128
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Hexagon 692
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
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 690

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