Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
Dimensity 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Dimensity 720
CPU 110385 94857
GPU 76645 73751
Memory 63724 64277
UX 94636 61339
Total score 345390 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 17.39% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (345 K vs 294 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 720 Support 14.56% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (17.07 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 690 607
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 690 1852
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

icon
Snapdragon 690 111.3
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

icon
Snapdragon 690 16.9
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

icon
Snapdragon 690 28.8
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

icon
Snapdragon 690 26.7
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

icon
Snapdragon 690 15.9
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

icon
Snapdragon 690 2.25
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

icon
Snapdragon 690 579.5
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    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 8 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 128 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 14.9 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 692 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Mediatek Dimensity 720

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

Cast your vote