Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 6100 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 6100 Plus 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 870 39
Dimensity 6100 Plus 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 6100 Plus 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 6100 Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 6100 Plus 39
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 6100 Plus
CPU 179347 112256
GPU 270188 98184
Memory 98761 66187
UX 95818 84704
Total score 644114 361331
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 45.45% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 6100 Plus (3200 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 6100 Plus (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 78.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 6100 Plus (644 K vs 361 K).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus

  • Dimensity 6100 Plus has 47.29% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (950 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 6100 Plus has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (6 vs 7 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 6100 Plus 580

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 6100 Plus 1707

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 6100 Plus

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 6100 Plus

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 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)
    2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 32
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 243 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 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X55 3GPP Release-16 standard 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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