Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus 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 480 Plus 20
Dimensity 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Dimensity 820
CPU 103367 125662
GPU 83956 125708
Memory 61234 77949
UX 96732 106547
Total score 345289 435866
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 18.18% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2600 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 9.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (900 vs 825 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 820 has 26.23% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (436 K vs 345 K ).
  • Dimensity 820 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 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 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 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - 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)
    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 8 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 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 2 5
  • Shading units 128 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) Hexagon 686 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • 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 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 480 Plus

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

Mediatek Dimensity 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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