Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 vs Snapdragon 685 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 900 25
Snapdragon 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 Snapdragon 685
CPU 125384 81894
GPU 125188 39122
Memory 83836 77991
UX 133752 71216
Total score 468160 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900

  • Dimensity 900 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 73.25% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (468 K vs 270 K).
  • Dimensity 900 Support 207.69% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (1200 vs 390 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 16.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (2800 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz -
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 48 96
  • 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 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 686
  • 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 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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