Overview - Dimensity 920 Vs Snapdragon 870

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 vs Snapdragon 870 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 870 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920 22
Snapdragon 870 34
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920 79
Snapdragon 870 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920 43
Snapdragon 870 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 920 Snapdragon 870
CPU 139277 179347
GPU 128453 270188
Memory 96272 98761
UX 134315 95818
Total score 498317 644114
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 920

  • Dimensity 920 has 47.29% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (950 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (6 vs 7 nm).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 28% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 920 (3200 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 29.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 920 (644 K vs 498 K ).
  • Snapdragon 870 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 920.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

icon
Dimensity 920 792
Snapdragon 870 1038

Multi-Core Score

icon
Dimensity 920 2592
Snapdragon 870 3569

Image compression

icon
Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 870 180.6

Face detection

icon
Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 870 25.25

Speech recognition

icon
Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 870 54.7

Machine learning

icon
Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 870 56.95

Camera shooting

icon
Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 870 28

SQLite

icon
Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 870 989.1

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 650
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 645 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 64 512
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops 1,267 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 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 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 698
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, 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 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X55
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
Choose between two processors

Cast your vote