Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 vs Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Snapdragon 685
CPU 110385 81894
GPU 76645 39122
Memory 63724 77991
UX 94636 71216
Total score 345390 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 27.82% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (345 K vs 270 K).
  • Snapdragon 690 Support 207.69% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (1200 vs 390 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 40% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2800 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 685 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 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Adreno 610
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 96
  • 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 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 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 685

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