Overview - Dimensity 1050 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1050 vs Snapdragon 685 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 1050 27
Snapdragon 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1050 22
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1050 79
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1050 43
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1050 Snapdragon 685
CPU 137500 81894
GPU 159729 39122
Memory 96303 77991
UX 129591 71216
Total score 523123 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1050

  • Dimensity 1050 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 93.59% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (523 K vs 270 K).
  • Dimensity 1050 Support 610.26% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (2770 vs 390 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 12% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1050 (2800 vs 2500 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1050 745
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1050 2142
Snapdragon 685 1609

3DMark

Stability 97%

Graphics test 15 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @144 Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive, CUVA HDR-vivid, HLG and Dolby Vision -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC3 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz -
  • Execution units 3 2
  • Shading units - 96
  • 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 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 550 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • 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 1050

CPU
27%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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