Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 81894 216591
GPU 39122 324286
Memory 77991 138188
UX 71216 167760
Total score 270223 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 6.96% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (2995 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 213.38% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (847 K vs 270 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    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 ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency - 905 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 512
  • FLOPS - 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 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 UFS 2.2 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 2000MP, 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 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

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