Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Dimensity 8100 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 2 57
Dimensity 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Dimensity 8100
CPU 270867 204875
GPU 567801 311503
Memory 239879 130636
UX 198202 161518
Total score 1276749 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 12.28% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (3200 vs 2850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 7.46% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (980 vs 912 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8100 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 57.91% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8100 (1,277 K vs 809 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 52.38% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (6400 vs 4200 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Dimensity 8100

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units - 6
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.3 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 X70 R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 7 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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