Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Dimensity 720

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Dimensity 720

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 720 . 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 0.3264 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 720 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (10W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +67%

391528

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +97%

774

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +133%

1861

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +2%

334

MediaTek Dimensity 720

326

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 720

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

10 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP3

653 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

3

256

Shading units

64

8

Max size

12

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3264 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 20MP

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 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

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jul 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6853V

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 720

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