Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 8050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 8050 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 8050 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 8050 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 8050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 8050 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 8050
CPU 179347 217200
GPU 270188 208098
Memory 98761 138670
UX 95818 138035
Total score 644114 702003
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 6.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8050 (3200 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8050 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 29.03% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 8050 (44 vs 34.1 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8050

  • Dimensity 8050 has 31.78% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (850 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 8.99% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (702 K vs 644 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 8050 964

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 8050 3261

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 8050

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 8050

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 8050

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 8050

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 8050

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 8050

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 96%

Graphics test 27 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz QHD+ @ 90 Hz, FHD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut 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 -
  • 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-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 9
  • Shading units 512 144
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 980 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 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 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 MediaTek APU 570
  • 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
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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

  • 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 8050

CPU
39%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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