Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 vs Snapdragon 480 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 690 22
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 110385 103367
GPU 76645 83956
Memory 63724 61234
UX 94636 96732
Total score 345390 345289
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 15.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (950 vs 825 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 0.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (345 K vs 345 K).
  • Snapdragon 690 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
  • Snapdragon 690 Support 50.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1200 vs 800 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 10% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus Support 14.09% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (17 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Snapdragon 480 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Snapdragon 480 Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A -
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Adreno 619
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 128
  • 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 14.9 Gbit/s 17 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 692 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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