Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 700

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 700 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 700 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 700 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 700 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 700 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 700
CPU 143028 98632
GPU 179320 71777
Memory 69420 72555
UX 72190 93594
Total score 463958 336558
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.55% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 700 (2960 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 37.85% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 700 (464 K vs 337 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 700 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 700

  • Dimensity 700 has 40.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (950 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 700 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 700 544

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 700 1884

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 700 101.85

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 700 15

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 700 32.9

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 700 27.9

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 700 14.55

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 700 2.1

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 700 543.4

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz FHD+ @ 90Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 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 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 32
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 243 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2 x 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 64MP, 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 700

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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