Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Snapdragon 888

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 vs Snapdragon 888 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 888 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Snapdragon 888 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Snapdragon 888 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Snapdragon 888 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Snapdragon 888
CPU 81097 211734
GPU 38425 306250
Memory 68438 133870
UX 63600 156641
Total score 251560 808495
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 32.62% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (1114 vs 840 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 18.33% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (2840 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 221.39% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (808 K vs 252 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Snapdragon 888 1126

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Snapdragon 888 3681

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 177.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 26.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 67.7

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 59.9

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 37.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 3.96

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
Snapdragon 888 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90 Hz 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 - 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

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 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 2.84 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 - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 840 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 512
  • FLOPS - 1720 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 17 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K 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 X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • 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 888

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