Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 MediaTek Dimensity 1200

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1200 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.9792 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (10W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +209%

722511

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +185%

1118

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +301%

3198

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +193%

979

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 1200

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

320 KB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

6 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

10 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP9

653 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

9

256

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.9792 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

MediaTek APU 3.0

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 3.0

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Helio M70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4700 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 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

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6893

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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