Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Dimensity 700

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Dimensity 700

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Dimensity 700 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2200MHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 700 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Dimensity 700 +68%

393125

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Dimensity 700 +82%

715

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Dimensity 700 +123%

1783

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +37%

334

MediaTek Dimensity 700

243

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 700

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP2

653 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

64

8

Max size

12

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.243 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

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

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

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6833V/ZA

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 700

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