Overview - Dimensity 800U Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 800U 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 800U 21
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 800U 16
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 800U 75
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 800U 37
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 800U Exynos 1280
CPU 113735 121972
GPU 104873 104889
Memory 67803 77341
UX 116075 106223
Total score 402486 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 800U (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has 1.97% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 800U (410 K vs 402 K ).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 800U.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 800U 594
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 800U 1683
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Dimensity 800U 105.3
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Dimensity 800U 15.5
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 800U 33.8
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Dimensity 800U 28.6
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 800U 14.4
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Dimensity 800U 2.08
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Dimensity 800U 534.9
Exynos 1280 556.4

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

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC3 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Valhall Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 3 4
  • Shading units 48 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 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 12 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP 1x 108MP
  • 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, 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
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%

Samsung Exynos 1280

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