Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 680 16
Dimensity 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Dimensity 720
CPU 81097 94857
GPU 38425 73751
Memory 68438 64277
UX 63600 61339
Total score 251560 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 20.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 31.06% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (1114 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (6 vs 7 nm).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 16.96% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (294 K vs 252 K ).
  • Dimensity 720 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Dimensity 720 Support 0.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (17.07 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90 Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • 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

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 96 48
  • 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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