Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G vs Snapdragon 778G 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 720G 21
Snapdragon 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU 98820 166382
GPU 71078 177972
Memory 47158 106394
UX 52126 130486
Total score 269182 581234
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

  • Snapdragon 720G has 36.36% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (750 vs 550 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 8.7% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (2500 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 115.93% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (581 K vs 269 K ).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus Support 84.04% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (25.6 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 2 MB
  • L3 cache 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 384
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 845 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 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 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 770
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 192MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 24
  • 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, SBAS, 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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