Overview - Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 vs Dimensity 820 SoCs by Qualcomm and Mediatek 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
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 22
Dimensity 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 16
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 79
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 39
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Dimensity 820
CPU 114597 125662
GPU 93082 125708
Memory 68776 77949
UX 111637 106547
Total score 388092 435866
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (6 vs 7 nm).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 30% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (2600 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 9.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (900 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 12.31% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (436 K vs 388 K ).
  • Dimensity 820 Support 0.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (17.07 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 620
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 1835
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G57 MC5
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 4 5
  • Shading units - 80
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

CPU
22%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
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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