Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 vs Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 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 6 Gen 1 26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 10% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 13.90% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (393 K vs 345 K ).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Support 47.65% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (22 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 779

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 2269

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 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)
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Adreno
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 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

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

22 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 692 Hexagon
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 210 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 900 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2900 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X51 X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • 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 6 Gen 1

CPU
26%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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