Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
Dimensity 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 18.18% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2600 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 12.43% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (950 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 82.34% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (517 K vs 283 K ).
  • Dimensity 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Dimensity 1080 Support 81.21% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (27 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 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 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 96 64
  • 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

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

27 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

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 3.0
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • 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
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 1080

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