Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 8200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 8200 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 8200 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 8200 40
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 8200 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 8200 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 8200
CPU 179347 210639
GPU 270188 339646
Memory 98761 139322
UX 95818 160894
Total score 644114 850501
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 3.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8200 (3200 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8200.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8200

  • Dimensity 8200 has 132.73% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (6400 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 32.04% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (851 K vs 644 K ).
  • Dimensity 8200 Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 8200 1054

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 8200 4010

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 8200

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 8200

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 8200

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 8200

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 8200

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 8200

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 120Hz WQHD+ / 180Hz Full HD+ display support
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+ Adaptive support
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 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)
    1x 3.1 GHz – Cortex A78
    3x 3 GHz – Cortex A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A -
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.2
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 MediaTek APU 580(Multi-Core)
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6E
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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 8200

CPU
43%
GPU
40%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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