Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 vs Dimensity 1080 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 888 43
Dimensity 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 9.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (2840 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 56.44% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (808 K vs 517 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 89.63% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (51.2 vs 27 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 13.10% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (950 vs 840 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - 12 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 512 64
  • FLOPS 1720 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

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

27 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB
memory-frequency

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 780 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2, 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 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 18
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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