Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Dimensity 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Dimensity 720
CPU 81894 94857
GPU 39122 73751
Memory 77991 64277
UX 71216 61339
Total score 270223 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 40.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2800 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (6 vs 7 nm).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 8.88% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (294 K vs 270 K ).
  • Dimensity 720 Support 0.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (17.07 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 685 377
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 685 1609
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

icon
Snapdragon 685
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-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 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency - 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 UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
Choose between two processors

Cast your vote