Overview - Dimensity 1300 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1300 vs Exynos 1280 SoCs by Mediatek and Samsung 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 1300 37
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1300 32
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1300 79
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1300 49
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1300

  • Dimensity 1300 has 25.00% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (3000 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1300 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1300 has 63.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (671 K vs 410 K).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1300 (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1300 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1300.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1300 975
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1300 3294
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Dimensity 1300
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 28 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @168 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 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
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Valhall Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 9 4
  • Shading units 144 48
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2550 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1300

CPU
37%
GPU
32%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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