Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Snapdragon 690
CPU 170589 110385
GPU 233643 76645
Memory 118786 63724
UX 145445 94636
Total score 668463 345390
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 50.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (3000 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 93.54% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (668 K vs 345 K).
  • Dimensity 1200 Support 33.33% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (1600 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (950 vs 850 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 168 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz QHD @ 60Hz
  • 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

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A 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 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 950 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 14.9 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 692
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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