Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 vs Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

  • Snapdragon 680 has 23.78% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (1114 vs 900 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (6 vs 7 nm).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 8.33% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (2600 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 73.27% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (436 K vs 252 K ).
  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Dimensity 820 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 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 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)
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.3-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 MC5
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 96 80
  • 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

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • 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 80MP, 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 390 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • 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 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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