Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 720 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 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 720
CPU 143028 94857
GPU 179320 73751
Memory 69420 64277
UX 72190 61339
Total score 463958 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 48.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2960 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 57.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (464 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 99.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 (34.13 vs 17.07 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 25.93% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (850 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 720 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 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 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 384 48
  • 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 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 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 64MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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, 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
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 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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