Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 7030

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 7030 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 7030 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 7030 21
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 7030 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 7030 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 7030
CPU 179347 163674
GPU 270188 81587
Memory 98761 121193
UX 95818 151408
Total score 644114 517862
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7030 (3200 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 24.38% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7030 (644 K vs 518 K).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 7030

  • Dimensity 7030 has 55.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1000 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 7030 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 7030 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 7030 1036

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 7030 2440

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 7030

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 7030

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 7030

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 7030

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 7030

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 7030

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+@144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+ Adaptive, HLG and Dolby Vision
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit 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 MP3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3rd gen
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 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 6E
  • 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 7030

CPU
33%
GPU
21%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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