Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Dimensity 8050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 vs Dimensity 8050 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 8050 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Dimensity 8050 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Dimensity 8050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Dimensity 8050 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Dimensity 8050
CPU 211734 217200
GPU 306250 208098
Memory 133870 138670
UX 156641 138035
Total score 808495 702003
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8050 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8050 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 15.17% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8050 (808 K vs 702 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8050.

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8050

  • Dimensity 8050 has 5.63% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3000 vs 2840 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 1.19% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (850 vs 840 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 888 1126
Dimensity 8050 964

Multi-Core Score

icon
Snapdragon 888 3681
Dimensity 8050 3261

Image compression

icon
Snapdragon 888 177.1
Dimensity 8050

Face detection

icon
Snapdragon 888 26.5
Dimensity 8050

Speech recognition

icon
Snapdragon 888 67.7
Dimensity 8050

Machine learning

icon
Snapdragon 888 59.9
Dimensity 8050

Camera shooting

icon
Snapdragon 888 37.5
Dimensity 8050

HTML 5

icon
Snapdragon 888 3.96
Dimensity 8050

SQLite

icon
Snapdragon 888 1060
Dimensity 8050

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability 96%

Graphics test 27 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz QHD+ @ 90 Hz, FHD+ @ 168 Hz
  • 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 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 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)
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 9
  • Shading units 512 144
  • FLOPS 1720 Gigaflops 980 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 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 MediaTek APU 570
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 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 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 19
  • 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, NAVIC
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 8050

CPU
39%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
Choose between two processors

Cast your vote