MediaTek Dimensity 800 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 800

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 800 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 800 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.3328 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 800 +64%

644

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 800 +185%

2276

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 800

332

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

MediaTek Dimensity 800

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2000 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 530

650 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

16

Max size

8

0.3328 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

2K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

2K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2019

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6873

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Dimensity 800

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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