Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus 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 9000 Plus 53
Snapdragon 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Plus Snapdragon 685
CPU 291317 81894
GPU 430867 39122
Memory 218270 77991
UX 206140 71216
Total score 1146594 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 14.29% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3200 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 324.31% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (1,147 K vs 270 K).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 252.94% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (60 vs 17 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 556.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (2560 vs 390 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
Snapdragon 685 1609

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display 2K @ 144 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB -
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 4 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MC10 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency - -
  • Execution units 10 2
  • Shading units 512 96
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

CPU
53%
GPU
50%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

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