Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 48
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 60
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Dimensity 820
CPU 249768 125662
GPU 448381 125708
Memory 172528 77949
UX 166045 106547
Total score 1036722 435866
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 15.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (3000 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 137.85% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (1,037 K vs 436 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 113.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (2560 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 12.50% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (900 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 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
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-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 MC5
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 3 5
  • Shading units 768 80
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon MediaTek APU 3.0
  • 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 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 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
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 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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