Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Dimensity 8300 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 8300 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Dimensity 8300 58
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Dimensity 8300 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 Dimensity 8300
CPU 125662 282796
GPU 125708 542690
Memory 77949 328720
UX 106547 249840
Total score 435866 1404046
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 28.85% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (3350 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 55.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (1400 vs 900 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 222.13% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (1,404 K vs 436 K ).
  • Dimensity 8300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 299.53% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (68.2 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Dimensity 8300 4886

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Dimensity 8300

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Dimensity 8300

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Dimensity 8300

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Dimensity 8300

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Dimensity 8300

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Dimensity 8300

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Dimensity 8300

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Mali-G615 MP6
  • Architecture Valhall Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 80 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 1x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 8300

CPU
57%
GPU
58%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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