Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 720
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
- Snapdragon 678 has 10.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720
- Dimensity 720 has 0.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (850 vs 845 MHz).
- Dimensity 720 has 36.36% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (7 vs 11 nm).
- Dimensity 720 has 3.80% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (294 K vs 283 K ).
- Dimensity 720 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
- Dimensity 720 Support 14.56% higher memory bandwidth then Snapdragon 678 (17.07 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 101216 | 94857 |
| GPU | 51346 | 73751 |
| Memory | 48181 | 64277 |
| UX | 82701 | 61339 |
| Total score | 283444 | 294224 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 102.2 Mpixels/s | 98.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 14.5 images/s | 14.3 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 27.8 words/s | 31.3 words/s |
| Machine learning | 23.7 images/s | 27 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 13.7 images/s | 14.9 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 2.05 Mnodes/s | 2 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 527.2 Mnodes/s | 510.9 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
4%
SD 6789%
Dimensity 720Score: 1219
| Stability | 99% | 97% |
| Graphics test | 2 FPS | 7 FPS |
| Score | 482 | 1219 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 and Mediatek Dimensity 720Display
| Max On-Device Display | FHD+ @ 120Hz | Full HD+ @ 90 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | HDR10 | HDR10, HDR10+ |
| Color Depth | Up to 10-bit | - |
| Color Gamut | Rec2020 | - |
CPU
64%
SD 67858%
Dimensity 720
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76) 6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1700 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2200 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L1 cache | 16 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 0.256 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 11 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistor count | 12 Billion | - |
| TDP | 6 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 612 | Mali-G57 MC3 |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Valhall |
| GPU frequency | 845 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 3 |
| Shading units | 96 | 48 |
| FLOPS | 354 Gigaflops | - |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 2 x 16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 14.9 Gbit/s | 17.07 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 685 | Yes |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP | 1x 64MP, 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 | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | X12 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | - | Up to 2770 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
| Announced Date | December 2020 | July 2020 |
| Class | Mid-range | Mid range |
| Model number | SM6150-AC | MT6853V |
| Official page | Snapdragon 678 official site | Dimensity 720 official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
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Mediatek Dimensity 720
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