Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 720 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 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 720
CPU 179347 94857
GPU 270188 73751
Memory 98761 64277
UX 95818 61339
Total score 644114 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 60.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (3200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 720 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 118.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (644 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 31.78% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (850 vs 645 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 GHz – Cortex-A76
    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 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 3
  • Shading units 512 48
  • 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 64MP, 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 AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X55 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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 720

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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