Overview - Dimensity 800U Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 800U vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 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 800U 21
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 800U 16
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 800U 75
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 800U 37
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 800U Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU 113735 495720
GPU 104873 914123
Memory 67803 361002
UX 116075 338475
Total score 402486 2109320
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 800U

  • Dimensity 800U has 10.39% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (850 vs 770 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 37.5% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (3300 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 125.04% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 800U (4800 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 800U (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 424.07% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 800U (2,109 K vs 402 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 800U.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 351.08% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 800U (77 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 800U 594
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 800U 1683
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526

Image compression

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Dimensity 800U 105.3
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Face detection

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Dimensity 800U 15.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 800U 33.8
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Dimensity 800U 28.6
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 800U 14.4
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Dimensity 800U 2.08
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

SQLite

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Dimensity 800U 534.9
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 9 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

87%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

103%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 12 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC3 Adreno 750
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 770 MHz
  • Execution units 3 -
  • Shading units 48 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 77 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU
91%
GPU
96%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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