Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Dimensity 800U

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 vs Dimensity 800U 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 800U 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Dimensity 800U 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Dimensity 800U 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Dimensity 800U 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Dimensity 800U
CPU 110385 113735
GPU 76645 104873
Memory 63724 67803
UX 94636 116075
Total score 345390 402486
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 800U.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 800U

  • Dimensity 800U has 20% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Dimensity 800U has 12.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (7 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 800U has 16.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (402 K vs 345 K ).
  • Dimensity 800U Support 14.56% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (17.07 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Dimensity 800U 594

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Dimensity 800U 1683

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Dimensity 800U 105.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Dimensity 800U 15.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Dimensity 800U 33.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Dimensity 800U 28.6

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Dimensity 800U 14.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Dimensity 800U 2.08

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Dimensity 800U 534.9

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 9 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 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 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-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 800U

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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