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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Dimensity 900 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Dimensity 900

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
VS
Dimensity 900
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Dimensity 900
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
79
Dimensity 900
44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
79
Dimensity 900
51
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
86
Dimensity 900
79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
81
Dimensity 900
58

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 25.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (3000 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 900 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 121.45% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 900 (1,037 K vs 468 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 178.26% higher memory bandwidth then Dimensity 900 (51.2 vs 18.4 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 113.33% higher memory bandwidth then Dimensity 900 (2560 vs 1200 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900
  • Dimensity 900 has 12.50% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (900 vs 800 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
vs
Dimensity 900

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +122%
1036722
Dimensity 900
468160
CPU 249768 125384
GPU 448381 125188
Memory 172528 83836
UX 166045 133752
Total score 1036722 468160

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +73%
1221
Dimensity 900
706
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +68%
3589
Dimensity 900
2137
Image compression 180.6 Mpixels/s 123.5 Mpixels/s
Face detection 25.25 images/s 20.5 images/s
Speech recognition 54.7 words/s 38.3 words/s
Machine learning 56.95 images/s 33.1 images/s
Camera shooting 28 images/s 19.6 images/s
HTML 5 3 Mnodes/s 2.51 Mnodes/s
SQLite 989.1 Mnodes/s 632.6 Mnodes/s

3DMark

70%
SD 8 Gen 1
17%
Dimensity 900
Score: 9041

Stability 88% 98%
Graphics test 54 FPS 12 FPS
Score 9041 2167

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Mediatek Dimensity 900

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz [email protected]
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

87%
SD 8 Gen 1
69%
Dimensity 900
Frequency

Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3000 MHz 2400 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 1 MB -
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 4 6
Transistor count - 10 Billion
TDP - 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 730 Mali-G68 MC4
Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall 2
GPU frequency 800 MHz 900 MHz
Execution units 3 4
Shading units 768 48
FLOPS - -
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 18.4 Gbit/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
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, AV1, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
2560
Dimensity 900
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
10240
Dimensity 900
2770
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
316
Dimensity 900
211
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
3072
Dimensity 900
N/A
Modem Snapdragon X65 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 10240 Mbps Up to 2770 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3072 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date December 2021 May 2021
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number SM8450 MT6877
Official page Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 official site Dimensity 900 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
CPU
65%
GPU
79%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

70.5


Review By TenzysTech
Mediatek Dimensity 900
Mediatek Dimensity 900
CPU
44%
GPU
51%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

43.5


Review By TenzysTech

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