Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 480 Plus 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 1200 36
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 170589 103367
GPU 233643 83956
Memory 118786 61234
UX 145445 96732
Total score 668463 345289
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 36.36% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3000 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 3.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (850 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 93.60% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (668 K vs 345 K).
  • Dimensity 1200 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
  • Dimensity 1200 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1600 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 480 Plus

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 480 Plus

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 168 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A -
  • L1 cache 32 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 619
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 9 2
  • Shading units 144 128
  • 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 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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