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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 900 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 900

Snapdragon 860
VS
Dimensity 900
Snapdragon 860
Dimensity 900
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 900 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860
50
Dimensity 900
44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860
41
Dimensity 900
36
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860
75
Dimensity 900
79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860
55
Dimensity 900
53

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
  • Snapdragon 860 has 23.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (2960 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 85.49% higher memory bandwidth then Dimensity 900 (34.13 vs 18.4 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth then Dimensity 900 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900
  • Dimensity 900 has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (900 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has -14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 0.91% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (468 K vs 464 K ).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 860
vs
Dimensity 900

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860
463958
Dimensity 900
468160
CPU 143028 125384
GPU 179320 125188
Memory 69420 83836
UX 72190 133752
Total score 463958 468160

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 860 +5%
744
Dimensity 900
706
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 860 +22%
2616
Dimensity 900
2137
Image compression 142.85 Mpixels/s 123.5 Mpixels/s
Face detection 20.3 images/s 20.5 images/s
Speech recognition 44.55 words/s 38.3 words/s
Machine learning 46.35 images/s 33.1 images/s
Camera shooting 22.85 images/s 19.6 images/s
HTML 5 1.65 Mnodes/s 2.51 Mnodes/s
SQLite 777.9 Mnodes/s 632.6 Mnodes/s

3DMark

27%
SD 860
17%
Dimensity 900
Score: 3455

Stability 98% 98%
Graphics test 20 FPS 12 FPS
Score 3455 2167

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and Mediatek Dimensity 900

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz [email protected]
Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2520 x 1080
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR10+ HDR
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

86%
SD 860
69%
Dimensity 900
Frequency

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-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2960 MHz 2400 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - -
L3 cache 2 MB -
Process 7 6
Transistor count - 10 Billion
TDP 10 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G68 MC4
Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
GPU frequency 675 MHz 900 MHz
Execution units 2 4
Shading units 384 48
FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops -
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 18.4 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 16 GB

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 2.1, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 108MP, 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, AV1, VP9
Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
2000
Dimensity 900
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
5000
Dimensity 900
2770
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
316
Dimensity 900
211
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
1200
Dimensity 900
N/A
Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 5000 Mbps Up to 2770 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 1200 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date April 2019 May 2021
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number SM8150-AC MT6877
Official page Snapdragon 860 official site Dimensity 900 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
65%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

47.75


Review By TenzysTech
Mediatek Dimensity 900
Mediatek Dimensity 900
CPU
44%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

39.75


Review By TenzysTech

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