Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Dimensity 1080 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 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 Dimensity 1080
CPU 125662 143941
GPU 125708 140125
Memory 77949 96692
UX 106547 136066
Total score 435866 516824
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 5.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (950 vs 900 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 18.57% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (517 K vs 436 K ).
  • Dimensity 1080 Support 58.17% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (27 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @120Hz
  • 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
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Valhall Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 5 5
  • Shading units 80 64
  • 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 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 27 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • 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, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 1x 200MP
  • 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 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 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • 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 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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