Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 13.85% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (2960 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 6.45% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (464 K vs 436 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 99.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (34.13 vs 17.07 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (900 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR, 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-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.3-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 MC5
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 384 80
  • 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

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 1x 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 5000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • 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 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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