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 17
Dimensity 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Dimensity 9000 60
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

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

82%
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
  • 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
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

CPU
49%
GPU
46%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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