Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Dimensity 720 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 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Dimensity 720
CPU 103367 94857
GPU 83956 73751
Memory 61234 64277
UX 96732 61339
Total score 345289 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 10.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 17.36% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (345 K vs 294 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 3.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (850 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 720 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 720 Support 0.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (17.07 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 128 48
  • 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 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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 480 Plus

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

Mediatek Dimensity 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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