Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Dimensity 700

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Dimensity 700 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 8 Gen 1 46
Dimensity 700 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 48
Dimensity 700 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Dimensity 700 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 60
Dimensity 700 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Dimensity 700
CPU 249768 98632
GPU 448381 71777
Memory 172528 72555
UX 166045 93594
Total score 1036722 336558
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 36.36% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 700 (3000 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 700 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 700 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 208.04% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 700 (1,037 K vs 337 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 700.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 113.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 700 (2560 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 700

  • Dimensity 700 has 18.75% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (950 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Dimensity 700 544

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Dimensity 700 1884

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Dimensity 700 101.85

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Dimensity 700 15

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Dimensity 700 32.9

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Dimensity 700 27.9

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Dimensity 700 14.55

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Dimensity 700 2.1

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Dimensity 700 543.4

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @ 90Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
    3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
    2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 3 2
  • Shading units 768 32
  • FLOPS - 243 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 2K 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 Snapdragon X65 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • 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 8 Gen 1

CPU
46%
GPU
48%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 700

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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