Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs Dimensity 8020

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 vs Dimensity 8020 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 8020 35
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Dimensity 8020 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Dimensity 8020 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Dimensity 8020 48
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900

  • Dimensity 900 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8020 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8020.

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8020

  • Dimensity 8020 has 8.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (2600 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8020 has 46.81% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 900 (687 K vs 468 K ).
  • Dimensity 8020 Support 85.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 900 (34.1 vs 18.4 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
Dimensity 8020 826

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Dimensity 8020 3315

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Dimensity 8020

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Dimensity 8020

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Dimensity 8020

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Dimensity 8020

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Dimensity 8020

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Dimensity 8020

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Dimensity 8020

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz Full HD+ @144 Hz, QHD+ @90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A -
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz -
  • Execution units 4 9
  • Shading units 48 144
  • 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

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

18.4 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

12 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes MediaTek APU 570
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2770 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 8020

CPU
35%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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