Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 6080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 6080 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 6080 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 6080 17
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 6080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 6080 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 6080
CPU 143028 135946
GPU 179320 69519
Memory 69420 103763
UX 72190 121897
Total score 463958 431125
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 23.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 6080 (2960 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 7.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 6080 (464 K vs 431 K).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 6080

  • Dimensity 6080 has 40.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (950 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 6080 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 6080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 6080 778

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 6080 2075

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 6080

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 6080

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 6080

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 6080

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 6080

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 6080

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 6080

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 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 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 2 MB
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 1st gen
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 64
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 243.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Yes
  • 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 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
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 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 6080

CPU
27%
GPU
17%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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