Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Snapdragon 685
CPU 143028 81894
GPU 179320 39122
Memory 69420 77991
UX 72190 71216
Total score 463958 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 5.71% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (2960 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 71.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (464 K vs 270 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 100.76% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (34.13 vs 17 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 412.82% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (2000 vs 390 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 685 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 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 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 96
  • 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon 686
  • 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 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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