Overview - Dimensity 8100 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8100 38
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8100 82
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8100 54
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 18.75% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (2850 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 97.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (809 K vs 410 K).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 9.65% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (1000 vs 912 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 969
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 4081
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Dimensity 8100
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 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 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 912 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 6 4
  • Shading units - 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

Memory frequency

6400 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) APU 580 (multi-core) Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 108MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 2550 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem R16-ready 5G modem -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
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%

Samsung Exynos 1280

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