Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs Snapdragon 860

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus vs Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 8.11% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 147.13% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,147 K vs 464 K).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 75.80% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (60 vs 34.13 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 28.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (2560 vs 2000 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 QHD @ 60Hz
  • Max External Display 2K @ 144 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.1-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB -
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 4 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MC10 Adreno 640
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency - 675 MHz
  • Execution units 10 2
  • Shading units 512 384
  • FLOPS - 1037 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3750 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

60 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 690
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • 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

4G Speed
  • 2560 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7168 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2560 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 5000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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