Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 8050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Dimensity 8050 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 8050 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Dimensity 8050 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Dimensity 8050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Dimensity 8050 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Dimensity 8050
CPU 101216 217200
GPU 51346 208098
Memory 48181 138670
UX 82701 138035
Total score 283444 702003
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8050

  • Dimensity 8050 has 36.36% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3000 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 0.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (850 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 45.45% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (6 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 147.67% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (702 K vs 283 K ).
  • Dimensity 8050 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Dimensity 8050 Support 128.86% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (34.1 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Dimensity 8050 964

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Dimensity 8050 3261

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Dimensity 8050

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Dimensity 8050

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Dimensity 8050

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Dimensity 8050

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Dimensity 8050

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Dimensity 8050

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Dimensity 8050

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 96%

Graphics test 27 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz QHD+ @ 90 Hz, FHD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 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)
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 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-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 9
  • Shading units 96 144
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops 980 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 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 MediaTek APU 570
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 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 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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. 19
  • 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 8050

CPU
39%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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