Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Dimensity 1080 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 480 Plus 20
Dimensity 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Dimensity 1080
CPU 103367 143941
GPU 83956 140125
Memory 61234 96692
UX 96732 136066
Total score 345289 516824
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 18.18% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2600 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 15.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (950 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 49.68% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (517 K vs 345 K ).
  • Dimensity 1080 Support 58.82% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (27 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Dimensity 1080 2252

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 3 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 128 64
  • 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 27 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, 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 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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