Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Snapdragon 860

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 vs Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Snapdragon 860
CPU 81097 143028
GPU 38425 179320
Memory 68438 69420
UX 63600 72190
Total score 251560 463958
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 65.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1114 vs 675 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 23.33% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (2960 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 84.43% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (464 K vs 252 K ).
  • Snapdragon 860 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 100.76% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (34.13 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
    1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.1-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Adreno 640
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 675 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 384
  • FLOPS - 1037 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 34.13 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Hexagon 690
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 20
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 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 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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