Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 8100
CPU 179347 204875
GPU 270188 311503
Memory 98761 130636
UX 95818 161518
Total score 644114 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 12.28% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (3200 vs 2850 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 41.40% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (912 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 132.73% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (6400 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 25.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (809 K vs 644 K ).
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 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)
    4x 2.85 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 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • 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 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 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 APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • 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 AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X55 R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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