Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 36.36% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3000 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 0.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (850 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 135.84% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (668 K vs 283 K).
  • Dimensity 1200 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Dimensity 1200 Support 94.63% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (29 vs 14.9 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 Support 166.67% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (1600 vs 600 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 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 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 32 KB 16 KB
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 612
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 9 2
  • Shading units 144 96
  • FLOPS - 354 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

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 685
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%
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