Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 29
Snapdragon 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Snapdragon 678
CPU 143028 101216
GPU 179320 51346
Memory 69420 48181
UX 72190 82701
Total score 463958 283444
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2960 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 36.36% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (7 vs 11 nm).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 63.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (464 K vs 283 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 129.06% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (34.13 vs 14.9 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 233.33% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (2000 vs 600 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 25.19% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (845 vs 675 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 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)
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - 16 KB
  • L2 cache - 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 612
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 96
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 354 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon 685
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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 X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 678

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