Overview - Dimensity 920 Vs Snapdragon 888

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 vs Snapdragon 888 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 888 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920 22
Snapdragon 888 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920 79
Snapdragon 888 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920 43
Snapdragon 888 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 920 Snapdragon 888
CPU 139277 211734
GPU 128453 306250
Memory 96272 133870
UX 134315 156641
Total score 498317 808495
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 920

  • Dimensity 920 has 13.10% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (950 vs 840 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 13.6% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 920 (2840 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 920 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 62.25% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 920 (808 K vs 498 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 920.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 792
Snapdragon 888 1126

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 920 2592
Snapdragon 888 3681

Image compression

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 177.1

Face detection

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 26.5

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 67.7

Machine learning

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 59.9

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 37.5

HTML 5

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 3.96

SQLite

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Dimensity 920
Snapdragon 888 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 840 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units 64 512
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops 1720 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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