Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 110385 216591
GPU 76645 324286
Memory 63724 138188
UX 94636 167760
Total score 345390 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 4.97% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (950 vs 905 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 49.75% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2995 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 145.18% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (847 K vs 345 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (51.2 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10 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

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 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)
    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 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 512
  • 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 14.9 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 692 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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, SBAS, 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 888 Plus

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