Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 860

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Snapdragon 860
CPU 170589 143028
GPU 233643 179320
Memory 118786 69420
UX 145445 72190
Total score 668463 463958
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 1.35% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3000 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 25.93% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (850 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 44.08% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (668 K vs 464 K).
  • Dimensity 1200 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 Support 17.69% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (34.13 vs 29 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 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 QHD @ 60Hz
  • 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

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 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
    1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.1-A
  • L1 cache 32 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB 2 MB
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 640
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 675 MHz
  • Execution units 9 2
  • Shading units 144 384
  • FLOPS - 1037 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 690
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 20
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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