Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 678 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 46
Snapdragon 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 48
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 60
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Snapdragon 678
CPU 249768 101216
GPU 448381 51346
Memory 172528 48181
UX 166045 82701
Total score 1036722 283444
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 36.36% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3000 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 63.64% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (4 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 265.76% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (1,037 K vs 283 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 326.67% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (2560 vs 600 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 5.62% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (845 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
    3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - 16 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Adreno 612
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 3 2
  • Shading units 768 96
  • FLOPS - 354 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon 685
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X65 X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU
46%
GPU
48%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%
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