Overview - Dimensity 920 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 vs Dimensity 820 SoCs by Mediatek. 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 920 29
Dimensity 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920 22
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920 79
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920 43
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 920

  • Dimensity 920 has 5.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (950 vs 900 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 920 has 14.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (498 K vs 436 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 4% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 920 (2600 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 920.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 792
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 2592
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Dimensity 920
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz Full HD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali-G57 MC5
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 4 5
  • Shading units 64 80
  • FLOPS 684 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

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

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memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 800 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2770 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 920

CPU
29%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Mediatek Dimensity 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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