Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 Snapdragon 720G
CPU 125662 98820
GPU 125708 71078
Memory 77949 47158
UX 106547 52126
Total score 435866 269182
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 13.04% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (2600 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 20.00% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (900 vs 750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 820 has 61.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (436 K vs 269 K).
  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • Dimensity 820 Support 22.72% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (17.07 vs 13.91 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 Support 50.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (1200 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 1 MB
  • Process 7 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Adreno 618
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 80 128
  • FLOPS - 435 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 13.91 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 Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 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 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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