Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Dimensity 6100 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 vs Dimensity 6100 Plus 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 685 17
Dimensity 6100 Plus 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Dimensity 6100 Plus 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Dimensity 6100 Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Dimensity 6100 Plus 39
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Dimensity 6100 Plus
CPU 81894 112256
GPU 39122 98184
Memory 77991 66187
UX 71216 84704
Total score 270223 361331
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 27.27% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 6100 Plus (2800 vs 2200 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus

  • Dimensity 6100 Plus has 33.72% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (361 K vs 270 K ).
  • Dimensity 6100 Plus Support 0.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (17.07 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Dimensity 6100 Plus 580

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Dimensity 6100 Plus 1707

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency - 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 32
  • FLOPS - 243 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 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 UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 2K 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 3GPP Release-16 standard 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 -
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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