Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 1050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 1050 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 870 39
Dimensity 1050 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 1050 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 1050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 1050 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 1050
CPU 179347 137500
GPU 270188 159729
Memory 98761 96303
UX 95818 129591
Total score 644114 523123
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1050 (3200 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 23.13% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1050 (644 K vs 523 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1050

  • Dimensity 1050 has 55.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1000 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1050 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (6 vs 7 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 1050 745

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 1050 2142

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 1050

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 1050

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 1050

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 1050

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 1050

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 1050

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 15 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+ Adaptive, CUVA HDR-vivid, HLG and Dolby Vision
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G610 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1,267 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 2750 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 MediaTek APU 550
  • Storage type 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 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X55 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Mediatek Dimensity 1050

CPU
27%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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