Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Snapdragon 720G
CPU 170589 98820
GPU 233643 71078
Memory 118786 47158
UX 145445 52126
Total score 668463 269182
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 30.43% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (3000 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 13.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (850 vs 750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 128.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (4266 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 148.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (668 K vs 269 K).
  • Dimensity 1200 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (1600 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 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 @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 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 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 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 1 MB
  • Process 6 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 618
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 9 2
  • Shading units 144 128
  • FLOPS - 435 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 4266 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 Gbit/s 13.91 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 Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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