Overview - Dimensity 720 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 720 vs Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 720 20
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 720 14
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 720 75
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 720 36
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 720 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 94857 216591
GPU 73751 324286
Memory 64277 138188
UX 61339 167760
Total score 294224 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 49.75% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2995 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 6.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (905 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 720 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 187.82% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (847 K vs 294 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 720.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 199.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 (51.2 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 720 523
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 720 1707
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Dimensity 720 98.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Dimensity 720 14.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 720 31.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Dimensity 720 27
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 720 14.9
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Dimensity 720 2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Dimensity 720 510.9
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 90 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
  • HDR HDR10, HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 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 - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC3 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 3 2
  • Shading units 48 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 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 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP 1x 2000MP, 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, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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