Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Dimensity 9000 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 860 29
Dimensity 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 9000
CPU 143028 254411
GPU 179320 384881
Memory 69420 180981
UX 72190 185288
Total score 463958 1005561
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 3.04% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3050 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 25.93% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (850 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 116.74% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,006 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 75.80% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (60 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 9000

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 3200 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 8 MB
  • Process 7 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 10
  • Shading units 384 512
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 1648 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 2133 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 MediaTek APU 590
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

CPU
49%
GPU
46%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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