Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs Snapdragon 870

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus vs Snapdragon 870 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 870 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
Snapdragon 870 34
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
Snapdragon 870 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
Snapdragon 870 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Plus Snapdragon 870
CPU 291317 179347
GPU 430867 270188
Memory 218270 98761
UX 206140 95818
Total score 1146594 644114
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 78.01% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (1,147 K vs 644 K).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 36.36% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (60 vs 44 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 2.40% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (2560 vs 2500 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
Snapdragon 870 1038

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
Snapdragon 870 3569

Image compression

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 870 180.6

Face detection

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 870 25.25

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 870 54.7

Machine learning

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 870 56.95

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 870 28

SQLite

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Snapdragon 870 989.1

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display 2K @ 144 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 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 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB 4 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 650
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency - 645 MHz
  • Execution units 10 2
  • Shading units 512 512
  • FLOPS - 1,267 Gigaflops
  • 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 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 698
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X55
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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