Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 8300 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 28
Dimensity 8300 54
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 8300 57
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 42
Dimensity 8300 66
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 8300
CPU 143028 282796
GPU 179320 542690
Memory 69420 328720
UX 72190 249840
Total score 463958 1404046
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 13.18% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3350 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 107.41% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1400 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 202.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,404 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 8300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 99.82% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (68.2 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 8300 4886

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 8300

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 8300

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 8300

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 8300

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 8300

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 8300

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 8300

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

54%
Base Frequency

2200 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)
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G615 MP6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1037 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps 7900 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2000 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed 1200 Mbps 4200 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • 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
28%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Dimensity 8300

CPU
54%
GPU
57%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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