Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 930

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 930 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 930 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 930 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 930 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 930 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 930
CPU 143028 137539
GPU 179320 130844
Memory 69420 97521
UX 72190 140904
Total score 463958 506808
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.55% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 930 (2960 vs 2200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 930

  • Dimensity 930 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 930 has 9.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (507 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 930 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 930 780

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 930 2469

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 930

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 930

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 930

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 930

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 930

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 930

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 930

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut 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-A78
    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 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 IMG BXM-8-256
  • Architecture Adreno 600 PowerVR B-Series
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 -
  • 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 -
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 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 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 108MP
  • 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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE. Cat.24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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 930

CPU
29%
GPU
22%
Memory
0%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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