Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Snapdragon 685 SoCs by Mediatek and Qualcomm 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 820 27
Snapdragon 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 Snapdragon 685
CPU 125662 81894
GPU 125708 39122
Memory 77949 77991
UX 106547 71216
Total score 435866 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 61.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (436 K vs 270 K).
  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Dimensity 820 Support 0.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (17.07 vs 17 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 Support 207.69% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (1200 vs 390 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 7.69% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (2800 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (6 vs 7 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 80 96
  • 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 1x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon 686
  • 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 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • 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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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