Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Dimensity 9000 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 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 48
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 60
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Dimensity 9000
CPU 249768 254411
GPU 448381 384881
Memory 172528 180981
UX 166045 185288
Total score 1036722 1005561
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 3.10% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 9000 (1,037 K vs 1,006 K).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 1.67% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3050 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 6.25% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (850 vs 800 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (60 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Dimensity 9000

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
    3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
    1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 3 10
  • Shading units 768 512
  • FLOPS - 1648 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 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon MediaTek APU 590
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 9000

CPU
49%
GPU
46%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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