Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 1050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Dimensity 1050 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 678 19
Dimensity 1050 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Dimensity 1050 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Dimensity 1050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Dimensity 1050 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Dimensity 1050
CPU 101216 137500
GPU 51346 159729
Memory 48181 96303
UX 82701 129591
Total score 283444 523123
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1050

  • Dimensity 1050 has 13.64% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2500 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 18.34% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1000 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 84.56% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (523 K vs 283 K ).
  • Dimensity 1050 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Dimensity 1050 745

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Dimensity 1050 2142

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Dimensity 1050

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Dimensity 1050

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Dimensity 1050

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Dimensity 1050

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Dimensity 1050

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Dimensity 1050

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Dimensity 1050

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 15 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10+ Adaptive, CUVA HDR-vivid, HLG and Dolby Vision
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Mali-G610 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS 354 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 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 MediaTek APU 550
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

Mediatek Dimensity 1050

CPU
27%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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