Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 vs Snapdragon 888 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 900 25
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 24.79% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (2995 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 0.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (905 vs 900 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 900 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 80.88% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 900 (847 K vs 468 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus 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
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 48 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 Gigaflops
  • 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

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

18.4 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
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
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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, SBAS, 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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