Overview - Dimensity 1080 Vs Exynos 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1080 vs Exynos 1080 SoCs by Mediatek and Samsung 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 1080 28
Exynos 1080 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1080 22
Exynos 1080 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1080 79
Exynos 1080 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1080 43
Exynos 1080 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 18.75% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (950 vs 800 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1080 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080

  • Exynos 1080 has 7.69% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (2800 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Exynos 1080 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Exynos 1080 has 34.84% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (697 K vs 517 K ).
  • Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • Exynos 1080 Support 62.96% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (44 vs 27 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 766
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 2252
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Dimensity 1080
Exynos 1080 875.8

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @120Hz WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali-G78 MP10
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 5 10
  • Shading units 64 160
  • 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

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

27 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 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 Neural Processor
  • Storage type UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 5100 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU
34%
GPU
31%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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