Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Dimensity 900

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 vs Dimensity 900 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 900 25
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Dimensity 900 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Dimensity 900 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Dimensity 900 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Dimensity 900
CPU 110385 125384
GPU 76645 125188
Memory 63724 83836
UX 94636 133752
Total score 345390 468160
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 5.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (950 vs 900 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900

  • Dimensity 900 has 20% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Dimensity 900 has 35.55% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (468 K vs 345 K ).
  • Dimensity 900 Support 23.49% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (18.4 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Dimensity 900 706

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Dimensity 900 2137

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Dimensity 900 123.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Dimensity 900 20.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Dimensity 900 38.3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Dimensity 900 33.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Dimensity 900 19.6

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Dimensity 900 2.51

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Dimensity 900 632.6

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+@120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR
  • 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-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - 10 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 2 4
  • 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 18.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 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 2.1, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 1x 108MP, 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 900

CPU
25%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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