Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Dimensity 9300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 vs Dimensity 9300 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 9300 92
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Dimensity 9300 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Dimensity 9300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Dimensity 9300 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Dimensity 9300
CPU 81894 485064
GPU 39122 899463
Memory 77991 357691
UX 71216 312866
Total score 270223 2055084
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9300

  • Dimensity 9300 has 16.07% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3250 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 125.04% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (4800 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 660.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (2,055 K vs 270 K ).
  • Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Dimensity 9300 Support 351.76% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (76.8 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Dimensity 9300 2265

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Dimensity 9300 7995

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test 116 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4k@120Hz, WQHD@180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - Yes
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3250 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 18 MB
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - 22.7 Billion
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency - 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 12
  • Shading units 96 192
  • FLOPS - 5990.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDRLPDDR5T
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 MediaTek APU 790
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • 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 9300

CPU
92%
GPU
95%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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