Overview - Dimensity 800U Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 800U vs Dimensity 1080 SoCs by Mediatek. 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 800U 21
Dimensity 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 800U 16
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 800U 75
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 800U 37
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 800U Dimensity 1080
CPU 113735 143941
GPU 104873 140125
Memory 67803 96692
UX 116075 136066
Total score 402486 516824
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 8.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (2600 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 800U (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 800U (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 28.41% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 800U (517 K vs 402 K ).
  • Dimensity 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 800U.
  • Dimensity 1080 Support 58.17% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 800U (27 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 800U 594
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 800U 1683
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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Dimensity 800U 105.3
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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Dimensity 800U 15.5
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 800U 33.8
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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Dimensity 800U 28.6
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 800U 14.4
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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Dimensity 800U 2.08
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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Dimensity 800U 534.9
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 9 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC3 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Valhall Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 3 5
  • Shading units 48 64
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 27 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

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

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 800U

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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