Overview - Dimensity 920 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 vs Snapdragon 480 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 920 29
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920 22
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920 79
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920 43
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 920 Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 139277 103367
GPU 128453 83956
Memory 96272 61234
UX 134315 96732
Total score 498317 345289
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 920

  • Dimensity 920 has 13.64% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2500 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 15.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (950 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 920 has 44.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (498 K vs 345 K).
  • Dimensity 920 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
  • Dimensity 920 Support 50.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1200 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 792
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 2592
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A -
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 619
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 64 128
  • 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 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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