Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 9300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 9300 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 9300 92
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 9300 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 9300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 9300 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 9300
CPU 143028 485064
GPU 179320 899463
Memory 69420 357691
UX 72190 312866
Total score 463958 2055084
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9300

  • Dimensity 9300 has 9.8% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3250 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 92.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1300 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 125.04% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4800 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 342.95% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (2,055 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Dimensity 9300 Support 125.02% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (76.8 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 9300 2265

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 9300 7995

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 9300

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 9300

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 9300

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 9300

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 9300

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 9300

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 9300

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 116 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4k@120Hz, WQHD@180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Yes
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3250 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)
    1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 18 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - 22.7 Billion
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 12
  • Shading units 384 192
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 5990.4 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 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDRLPDDR5T
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 MediaTek APU 790
  • 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 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • 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
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Dimensity 9300

CPU
92%
GPU
95%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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