Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
CPU 143028 105049
GPU 179320 110865
Memory 69420 90267
UX 72190 87211
Total score 463958 393392
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (2960 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 17.94% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (464 K vs 393 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 55.14% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (34.13 vs 22 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 779

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 2269

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1037 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 34.13 Gbit/s 22 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

CPU
26%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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