Overview - Dimensity 920 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 920 29
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920 22
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920 79
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920 43
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 920 Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
CPU 139277 270867
GPU 128453 567801
Memory 96272 239879
UX 134315 198202
Total score 498317 1276749
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 28% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 920 (3200 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 3.16% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 920 (980 vs 950 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 31.25% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 920 (4200 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 920 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 156.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 920 (1,277 K vs 498 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 920.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 792
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 2592
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198

Image compression

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3

Face detection

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9

Machine learning

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81

SQLite

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 81 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 HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 8 MB
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 740
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 980 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units 64 -
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - -
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5x
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1 x 200 MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K 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. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 920

CPU
29%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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