Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 1200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 1200 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 1200 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 1200 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 6.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3200 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 51.72% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (44 vs 29 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 56.25% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (2500 vs 1600 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 31.78% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (850 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 3.78% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (668 K vs 644 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 1200 925

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 1200 3246

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 1200 171.75

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 1200 32.25

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 1200 51.5

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 1200 51.65

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 1200 27.35

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Dimensity 1200 3.76

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 1200 931.9

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 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)
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB 32 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB 0.32 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 8 MB
  • Process 7 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 9
  • Shading units 512 144
  • 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

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X55 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 19
  • 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 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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