Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs Intel Core i7-9700F

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i7-9700F
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Intel Core i7-9700F

CPU comparison

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 or Intel Core i7-9700F - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.80 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 was released in Q1/2016.

The Intel Core i7-9700F has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-9700F was released in Q2/2019.
Qualcomm Snapdragon (102) Family Intel Core i7 (298)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (3) CPU group Intel Core i 9000 (34)
4 Generation 9
Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Coffee Lake S Refresh
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor Intel Core i7-10700F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 is a 6 core processor with a clock frequency of 1.80 GHz. The Intel Core i7-9700F has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz (4.70 GHz).

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700F
6 Cores 8
6 Threads 8
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
1.80 GHz
2x Cortex-A72
A-Core 3.00 GHz (4.70 GHz)
1.40 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700F
Qualcomm AI engine AI hardware --
Hexagon V56 AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

Qualcomm Adreno 510 GPU no iGPU
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
5 GPU Generation --
14 nm Technology
0 Max. displays
-- Compute units --
128 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory --
11 DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Qualcomm Adreno 510 GPU no iGPU
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode Codec h264 No
Decode Codec VP9 No
Decode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC No
Decode Codec VC-1 No
Decode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 supports a maximum of 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-9700F can connect up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700F
LPDDR3-1866 Memory DDR4-2666
8 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
14.9 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 42.7 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 12.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 has a TDP of --, that of the Intel Core i7-9700F is 65 W.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700F
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the Intel Core i7-9700F cache has a total of 12.00 MB.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700F
28 nm Technology 14 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
-- Socket LGA 1151-2
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q1/2016 Release date Q2/2019
-- Release price 520 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (20%)
Intel Core i7-9700F (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (12%)
Intel Core i7-9700F (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
248 (20%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
1218 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
803 (12%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
6714 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
1457 (11%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
13350 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
68 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
467 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
1181 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
8540 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
1570 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
7202 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
465 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
3644 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
Qualcomm Adreno 510 @ 0.60 GHz
154 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
525 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3848 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
209 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
1491 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 Intel Core i7-9700F
Unknown HP Pavilion 595-p0510ng Desktop PC
HP Pavilion TP01-0012ng Desktop PC
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HP Pavilion Gaming 790-0532ng Desktop PC

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