Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Snapdragon 690 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 870 39
Snapdragon 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Snapdragon 690
CPU 179347 110385
GPU 270188 76645
Memory 98761 63724
UX 95818 94636
Total score 644114 345390
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 60.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (3200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 86.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (644 K vs 345 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 47.29% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (950 vs 645 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1,267 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 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Hexagon 692
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X55 X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • 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 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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