Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 Dimensity 8100
CPU 125384 204875
GPU 125188 311503
Memory 83836 130636
UX 133752 161518
Total score 468160 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 18.75% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (2850 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 1.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (912 vs 900 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 900 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 900 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 72.70% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 900 (809 K vs 468 K ).
  • Dimensity 8100 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 178.26% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 900 (51.2 vs 18.4 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Dimensity 8100

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 4 6
  • Shading units 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 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 18.4 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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