Snapdragon 660 vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 (Adreno 512) with the older 4-core Apple A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 660
- Has 4 more cores
- Performs 89% better in floating-point computations
- Announced 8-months later
- Has a smaller size transistor (14 versus 16 nm)
Pros of Apple A10 Fusion
- Shows significantly better (up to 61%) AnTuTu 8 score – 246K vs 153K
- 6% higher CPU clock speed (2340 vs 2200 MHz)
- Higher GPU frequency (~6%)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 69937 | 47633 |
| GPU | 24360 | 78628 |
| Memory | 32441 | 33145 |
| UX | 27977 | 24576 |
| Total score | 153429 | 246817 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 88.7 Mpixels/s | 65.95 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 12 images/s | 12.5 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 24.1 words/s | 27.5 words/s |
| Machine learning | 18.3 images/s | 29.55 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 11 images/s | 15.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.76 Mnodes/s | 1.83 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 487.4 Krows/s | 426.85 Krows/s |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 660 and A10 FusionCPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73) 4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53) |
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane 2x 0 GHz – Zephyr |
| Cores | 8 | 4 |
| Frequency | 2200 MHz | 2340 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | - | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 1.75 billion | 3.3 billion |
| TDP | 9 W | 5 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 512 | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | Rogue |
| GPU frequency | 850 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 1 | 6 |
| Shading units | 128 | 196 |
| FLOPS | 217 Gigaflops | 115 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | - |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | - |
| Max bandwidth | 29.8 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 8 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 680 | No |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2560 x 1600 | 2048 x 1536 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X12 | Qualcomm MDM9645M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | May 2017 | September 2016 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | SDM660 | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 official site | - |
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