Overview - Dimensity 1080 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1080 vs Snapdragon 888 Plus SoCs by Mediatek and Qualcomm respectively. 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
Dimensity 1080 28
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1080 22
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1080 79
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1080 43
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1080 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 143941 216591
GPU 140125 324286
Memory 96692 138188
UX 136066 167760
Total score 516824 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 4.97% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (950 vs 905 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 15.19% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (2995 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 63.85% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (847 K vs 517 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 89.63% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (51.2 vs 27 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 766
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 2252
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @120Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 64 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 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 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 27 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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