Overview - Dimensity 8100 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8100 vs Dimensity 820 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 8100 42
Dimensity 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8100 38
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8100 82
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8100 54
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8100 Dimensity 820
CPU 204875 125662
GPU 311503 125708
Memory 130636 77949
UX 161518 106547
Total score 808532 435866
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 9.62% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (2850 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 1.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (912 vs 900 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 85.50% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (809 K vs 436 K).
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 199.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (51.2 vs 17.07 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 969
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 4081
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Dimensity 8100
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Mali-G57 MC5
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 912 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 6 5
  • Shading units - 80
  • 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 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size - 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) APU 580 (multi-core) MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem R16-ready 5G modem -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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