Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1080

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.686 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 11W)

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +130%

537997

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +147%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +203%

2421

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +105%

686

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 1080

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

6 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

4 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

653 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.686 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 3.0

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Oct 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6877V/TTZA

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

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