Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 800U

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Dimensity 800U 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 800U 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Dimensity 800U 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Dimensity 800U 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Dimensity 800U 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Dimensity 800U
CPU 101216 113735
GPU 51346 104873
Memory 48181 67803
UX 82701 116075
Total score 283444 402486
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 800U

  • Dimensity 800U has 9.09% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2400 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 800U has 0.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (850 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 800U has 36.36% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (7 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 800U has 42.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (402 K vs 283 K ).
  • Dimensity 800U Support 14.56% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (17.07 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Dimensity 800U 594

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Dimensity 800U 1683

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Dimensity 800U 105.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Dimensity 800U 15.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Dimensity 800U 33.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Dimensity 800U 28.6

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Dimensity 800U 14.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Dimensity 800U 2.08

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Dimensity 800U 534.9

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 9 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz Full HD+ @ 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

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 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 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-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
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • 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 800U

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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