Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 vs Dimensity 9000 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 14
Dimensity 9000 40
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 9
Dimensity 9000 36
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 34
Dimensity 9000 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Dimensity 9000
CPU 81894 254411
GPU 39122 384881
Memory 77991 180981
UX 71216 185288
Total score 270223 1005561
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 8.93% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3050 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 272.12% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (1,006 K vs 270 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 252.94% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (60 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Dimensity 9000 4132

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 3200 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency - 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 96 512
  • FLOPS - 1648 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 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 MediaTek APU 590
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 7000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 390 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed - 2500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
14%
GPU
9%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

CPU
40%
GPU
36%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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