Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Dimensity 9300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 vs Dimensity 9300 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 37
Dimensity 9300 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 33
Dimensity 9300 93
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Dimensity 9300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 48
Dimensity 9300 89
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Dimensity 9300
CPU 179347 485064
GPU 270188 899463
Memory 98761 357691
UX 95818 312866
Total score 644114 2055084
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9300

  • Dimensity 9300 has 1.56% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (3250 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 101.55% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1300 vs 645 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 74.55% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (4800 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 219.06% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (2,055 K vs 644 K ).
  • Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
  • Dimensity 9300 Support 74.55% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (76.8 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Dimensity 9300 2265

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Dimensity 9300 7995

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Dimensity 9300

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Dimensity 9300

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Dimensity 9300

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Dimensity 9300

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Dimensity 9300

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Dimensity 9300

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 116 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz 4k@120Hz, WQHD@180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 Yes
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3250 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

49%
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 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 18 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - 22.7 Billion
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 2 12
  • Shading units 512 192
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 5990.4 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 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDRLPDDR5T
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 MediaTek APU 790
  • 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 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2500 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 7000 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • 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
37%
GPU
33%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Dimensity 9300

CPU
87%
GPU
93%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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