Overview - Dimensity 8200 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8200 vs Snapdragon 480 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 8200 43
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8200 40
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8200 86
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8200 56
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8200 Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 210639 103367
GPU 339646 83956
Memory 139322 61234
UX 160894 96732
Total score 850501 345289
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8200

  • Dimensity 8200 has 40.91% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3100 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 146.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (851 K vs 345 K).
  • Dimensity 8200 Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (51.2 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8200 1054
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8200 4010
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 120Hz WQHD+ / 180Hz Full HD+ display support FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive support -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.1 GHz – Cortex A78
    3x 3 GHz – Cortex A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex A55
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - -
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Adreno 619
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency - 825 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.2 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size - 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 580(Multi-Core) Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6E 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8200

CPU
43%
GPU
40%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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