Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 vs Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 15.19% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (2995 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 0.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (905 vs 900 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 94.29% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (847 K vs 436 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 199.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (51.2 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • 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 - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 80 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 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

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 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 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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