Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 8300 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 8300 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 8300 58
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 8300 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 8300
CPU 179347 282796
GPU 270188 542690
Memory 98761 328720
UX 95818 249840
Total score 644114 1404046
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 4.69% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (3350 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 117.05% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1400 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 117.98% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (1,404 K vs 644 K ).
  • Dimensity 8300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 55.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (68.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 8300 4886

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 8300

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 8300

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 8300

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 8300

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 8300

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 8300

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 WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • 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

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 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 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G615 MP6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP
  • 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 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • 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 8300

CPU
57%
GPU
58%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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