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 than 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
58%
SD 67853%
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 |