Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Dimensity 1000 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Dimensity 1000 Plus 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 820 27
Dimensity 1000 Plus 31
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Dimensity 1000 Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Dimensity 1000 Plus 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Dimensity 1000 Plus 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 Dimensity 1000 Plus
CPU 125662 157984
GPU 125708 197648
Memory 77949 78051
UX 106547 87037
Total score 435866 520720
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1000 Plus (2133 vs 1866 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

  • Dimensity 1000 Plus has 19.47% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (521 K vs 436 K ).
  • Dimensity 1000 Plus Support 74.99% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (29.87 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Dimensity 1000 Plus 766

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Dimensity 1000 Plus 2852

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Dimensity 1000 Plus 166.4

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Dimensity 1000 Plus 28.2

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Dimensity 1000 Plus 45.2

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Dimensity 1000 Plus 46.9

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Dimensity 1000 Plus 27.8

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Dimensity 1000 Plus 3.53

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Dimensity 1000 Plus 883.8

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 22 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz Full HD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 0.512 MB
  • Process 7 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Valhall Valhall
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 5 9
  • Shading units 80 144
  • FLOPS - 800 Gigaflops
  • 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 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 29.87 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 1x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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 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 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 820

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

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

CPU
31%
GPU
26%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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