Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 vs Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Dimensity 820
CPU 211734 125662
GPU 306250 125708
Memory 133870 77949
UX 156641 106547
Total score 808495 435866
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 9.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (2840 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 85.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (808 K vs 436 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 199.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (51.2 vs 17.07 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 7.14% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (900 vs 840 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @ 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 HDR, 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)
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G57 MC5
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 2 5
  • Shading units 512 80
  • 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 1x 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
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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, 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 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • 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 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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