Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 1080 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 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 1080
CPU 143028 143941
GPU 179320 140125
Memory 69420 96692
UX 72190 136066
Total score 463958 516824
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 13.85% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (2960 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 26.41% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (34.13 vs 27 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 40.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (950 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 11.39% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (517 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+ @120Hz
  • 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)
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 384 64
  • FLOPS 1037 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 27 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • 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, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP
  • 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 AAC, 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 5.2
  • 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 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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