Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Dimensity 1200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 vs Dimensity 1200 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 680 16
Dimensity 1200 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Dimensity 1200 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Dimensity 1200 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Dimensity 1200 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Dimensity 1200
CPU 81097 170589
GPU 38425 233643
Memory 68438 118786
UX 63600 145445
Total score 251560 668463
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 31.06% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (1114 vs 850 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 25% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (3000 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 165.73% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (668 K vs 252 K ).
  • Dimensity 1200 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Dimensity 1200 Support 70.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (29 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Dimensity 1200 925

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Dimensity 1200 3246

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 171.75

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 32.25

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 51.5

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 51.65

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 27.35

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 3.76

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 1200 931.9

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90 Hz Full HD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
    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 - 32 KB
  • L2 cache - 0.32 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 9
  • Shading units 96 144
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 29 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 19
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Mediatek Dimensity 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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