Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Dimensity 8100
CPU 211734 204875
GPU 306250 311503
Memory 133870 130636
UX 156641 161518
Total score 808495 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 0.35% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (2850 vs 2840 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 8.57% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (912 vs 840 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 0.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (809 K vs 808 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Dimensity 8100

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • 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

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 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)
    4x 2.85 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 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 512 -
  • 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 3200 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • 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 AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 21
  • 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, 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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