Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Snapdragon 888

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Snapdragon 888 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 888 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Snapdragon 888 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Snapdragon 888 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Snapdragon 888 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Snapdragon 888
CPU 170589 211734
GPU 233643 306250
Memory 118786 133870
UX 145445 156641
Total score 668463 808495
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 5.63% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3000 vs 2840 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 1.19% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (850 vs 840 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 20.95% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (808 K vs 668 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 76.55% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (51.2 vs 29 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Snapdragon 888 1126

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Snapdragon 888 3681

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Snapdragon 888 177.1

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Snapdragon 888 26.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Snapdragon 888 67.7

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Snapdragon 888 59.9

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Snapdragon 888 37.5

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Snapdragon 888 3.96

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Snapdragon 888 1060

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, 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

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 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 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 32 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 840 MHz
  • Execution units 9 2
  • Shading units 144 512
  • FLOPS - 1720 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K 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 - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • 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 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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