Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 8 Gen 2 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 1.57% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4266 vs 4200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 6.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3200 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 15.29% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (980 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 91.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (1,277 K vs 668 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 168 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR Vivid, HDR10+, 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

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 32 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB 8 MB
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 740
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 980 MHz
  • Execution units 9 -
  • Shading units 144 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • 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

4200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5x
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1 x 200 MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 10000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - Snapdragon X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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