Overview - Dimensity 920 Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 vs Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920 22
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920 79
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920 43
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 920 Snapdragon 678
CPU 139277 101216
GPU 128453 51346
Memory 96272 48181
UX 134315 82701
Total score 498317 283444
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 920

  • Dimensity 920 has 13.64% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2500 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 12.43% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (950 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 920 has 75.81% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (498 K vs 283 K).
  • Dimensity 920 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (1200 vs 600 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 792
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 2592
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - 16 KB
  • L2 cache - 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 612
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 64 96
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops 354 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 - 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon 685
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%
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