Dimensity 820 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820
- Dimensity 820 has 16.88% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (900 vs 770 MHz).
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 26.92% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (3300 vs 2600 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 125.04% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (4800 vs 2133 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (4 vs 7 nm).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 383.94% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (2,109 K vs 436 K ).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 351.08% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (77 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 125662 | 495720 |
| GPU | 125708 | 914123 |
| Memory | 77949 | 361002 |
| UX | 106547 | 338475 |
| Total score | 435866 | 2109320 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 142.3 Mpixels/s | - |
| Face detection | 22.4 images/s | - |
| Speech recognition | 41.2 words/s | - |
| Machine learning | 31.3 images/s | - |
| Camera shooting | 21.3 images/s | - |
| HTML 5 | 2.94 Mnodes/s | - |
| SQLite | 759 Mnodes/s | - |
3DMark
17%
Dimensity 8200%
sd 8 Gen 3Score: 2165
| Stability | 98% | - |
| Graphics test | 13 FPS | - |
| Score | 2165 | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Dimensity 820 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3Display
| Max On-Device Display | Full HD+ @ 120Hz | 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max External Display | - | 8K @ 30 Hz |
| HDR | HDR, HDR10+ | HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+ |
| Color Depth | - | 10-bit |
| Color Gamut | - | Rec. 2020 |
CPU
69%
Dimensity 82087%
sd 8 Gen 3
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4 3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2000 MHz | 2260 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2600 MHz | 3300 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.3-A | ARMv9-A |
| L1 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | - | - |
| L3 cache | - | 12 MB |
| Process | 7 nm | 4 nm |
| Transistor count | - | - |
| TDP | 10 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G57 MC5 | Adreno 750 |
| Architecture | Valhall | Adreno 700 |
| GPU frequency | 900 MHz | 770 MHz |
| Execution units | 5 | - |
| Shading units | 80 | - |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Bus | 1x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 17.07 Gbit/s | 77 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | MediaTek APU 3.0 | Hexagon |
| Storage type | UFS 2.2 | UFS 4.0 |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP | 1x 200MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | Snapdragon X75 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 4700 Mbps | Up to 10000 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 2500 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 7 |
| Bluetooth | 5.1 | 5.4 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced Date | May 2020 | October 2023 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | MT6875 | SM8650-AB |
| Official page | Dimensity 820 official site | Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 official site |
Mediatek Dimensity 820
36.75
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
68.25
Review By TenzysTech
