Overview - Dimensity 1300 Vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1300 vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 1300 35
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 66
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1300 31
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 61
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1300 79
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1300 48
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 71
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1300 Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
CPU 181145 374214
GPU 240476 516258
Memory 122105 344248
UX 127295 259884
Total score 671021 1494604
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1300

  • Dimensity 1300 has 1.57% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (4266 vs 4200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 29.41% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1300 (1100 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1300 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 122.74% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1300 (1,495 K vs 671 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1300.
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Support 87.68% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1300 (64 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1300 975
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1300 3294
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 28 FPS
Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @168 Hz QHD+ @ 144 Hz, 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR HDR, HDR10 HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 8 MB
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 735
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 9 2
  • Shading units 144 768
  • FLOPS - 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 64 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4700 Mbps 6500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1300

CPU
35%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU
66%
GPU
61%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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