Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Dimensity 8100 SoCs by Qualcomm and Mediatek 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
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Dimensity 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Dimensity 8100
CPU 103367 204875
GPU 83956 311503
Memory 61234 130636
UX 96732 161518
Total score 345289 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 29.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2850 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 10.55% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (912 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (5 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 134.16% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (809 K vs 345 K ).
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Dimensity 8100 4081

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 128 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Mediatek Dimensity 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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