MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 820 Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.416 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2600MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 820

489218

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +21%

592031

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820

847

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +10%

939

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820

2494

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +14%

2855

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820

416

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +115%

898

MediaTek Dimensity 820

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.7

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

Adreno 640

650 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

5

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

384

16

Max size

16

0.416 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

May 2020

Announced

Dec 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6875

Model number

SM8150

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Related SoC Comparison

1

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

2

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus

3

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Samsung Exynos 7884B

4

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Samsung Exynos 2400

5

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs MediaTek Dimensity 6080

6

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Samsung Exynos 8895

7

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

8

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Samsung Exynos 1480

9

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G

10

MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus