Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 1000 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 1000 Plus 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 860 29
Dimensity 1000 Plus 31
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 1000 Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 1000 Plus 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 1000 Plus 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 1000 Plus
CPU 143028 157984
GPU 179320 197648
Memory 69420 78051
UX 72190 87037
Total score 463958 520720
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 13.85% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (2960 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1000 Plus (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 14.26% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1000 Plus (34.13 vs 29.87 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

  • Dimensity 1000 Plus has 25.93% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (850 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1000 Plus has 12.23% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (521 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 1000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 1000 Plus 766

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 1000 Plus 2852

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 1000 Plus 166.4

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 1000 Plus 28.2

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 1000 Plus 45.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 1000 Plus 46.9

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 1000 Plus 27.8

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 1000 Plus 3.53

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 1000 Plus 883.8

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 22 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 0.512 MB
  • Process 7 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 9
  • Shading units 384 144
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 800 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 29.87 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

CPU
31%
GPU
26%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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