Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Dimensity 8100
CPU 101216 204875
GPU 51346 311503
Memory 48181 130636
UX 82701 161518
Total score 283444 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 29.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2850 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 7.93% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (912 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 54.55% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (5 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 185.25% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (809 K vs 283 K ).
  • Dimensity 8100 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (51.2 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Dimensity 8100

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • 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

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 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)
    4x 2.85 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 - 4 MB
  • Process 11 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 96 -
  • 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 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 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 APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • 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 AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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