Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 vs Dimensity 720 SoCs by Mediatek. 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 900 25
Dimensity 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 Dimensity 720
CPU 125384 94857
GPU 125188 73751
Memory 83836 64277
UX 133752 61339
Total score 468160 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900

  • Dimensity 900 has 20.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 720 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 900 has 59.12% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (468 K vs 294 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 4 3
  • Shading units 48 48
  • 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 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 18.4 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 900

CPU
25%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Mediatek Dimensity 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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