Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 9000 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 870 39
Dimensity 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 9000
CPU 179347 254411
GPU 270188 384881
Memory 98761 180981
UX 95818 185288
Total score 644114 1005561
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 4.92% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (3200 vs 3050 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 31.78% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (850 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 56.12% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (1,006 K vs 644 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 36.36% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (60 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 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

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 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 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 8 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 512 512
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 1648 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 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 60 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 590
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • 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 LTE Cat. 24
  • 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, SBAS, 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 9000

CPU
49%
GPU
46%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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