Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

  • Snapdragon 720G has 4.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (2300 vs 2200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 46.14% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (393 K vs 269 K ).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Support 58.16% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (22 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 720G 569
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 779

Multi-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 720G 1780
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 2269

Image compression

icon
Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Face detection

icon
Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Speech recognition

icon
Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Machine learning

icon
Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Camera shooting

icon
Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

HTML 5

icon
Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

SQLite

icon
Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 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 @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 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 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Adreno
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 -
  • FLOPS 435 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

Memory frequency

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

13.91 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) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Hexagon
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 800 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 2900 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X15 X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

CPU
26%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
Choose between two processors

Cast your vote