Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 98820 216591
GPU 71078 324286
Memory 47158 138188
UX 52126 167760
Total score 269182 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 30.22% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (2995 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 20.67% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (905 vs 750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 214.59% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (847 K vs 269 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 268.08% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (51.2 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 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 @ 60 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, 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

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 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)
    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 1 MB 4 MB
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 512
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 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 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 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) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 8K 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 X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 888 Plus

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