Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3244 TFLOPS vs 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +30%

340607

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +112%

685

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +89%

1568

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +1%

324

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2150 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

14 nm

Process

11 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 612

624 MHz

GPU frequency

845 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3244 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996

Model number

SM6150-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

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