Snapdragon 665 vs Snapdragon 650
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 (Adreno 610) with the older 6-core Snapdragon 650 (Adreno 510) 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
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
- Announced 4-years and 2-months later
- Has a smaller size transistor (11 versus 28 nm)
- Performs 78% better in floating-point computations
- Has 2 more cores
- 11% higher CPU clock speed (2000 vs 1800 MHz)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 66445 | - |
| GPU | 34275 | - |
| Memory | 38991 | - |
| UX | 55823 | - |
| Total score | 195298 | - |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 87.65 Mpixels/s | 48.4 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 12.2 images/s | 5.83 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 21.45 words/s | 16.5 words/s |
| Machine learning | 16.65 images/s | 10.7 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 10.9 images/s | 5.19 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.8 Mnodes/s | 0.87 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 468 Krows/s | 221 Krows/s |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 29 FPS [Low] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 28 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 27 FPS [Low] |
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| Shadowgun Legends | 53 FPS [Low] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 57 FPS [Medium] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 30 FPS [High] |
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| Device | Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T 1080 x 2340 |
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We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 665 and Snapdragon 650CPU
| Architecture | 4x 2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53) |
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72 4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2000 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | - | 16 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 256 KB |
| Process | 11 nanometers | 28 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | 1 billion |
| TDP | 5 W | 9 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 610 | Adreno 510 |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Adreno 500 |
| GPU frequency | 600 MHz | 600 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 1 |
| Shading units | 96 | 128 |
| FLOPS | 273 Gigaflops | 153 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 11.1 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR3 |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 933 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 14.9 Gbit/s | 14.9 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 686 | Hexagon V56 |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2560 x 1600 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP | 1x 21MP, 2x 13MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP8 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X12 | X8 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 4.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | April 2019 | February 2015 |
| Class | Mid range | Mid range |
| Model number | SM6125 | MSM8956 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 official site | Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 official site |
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