MediaTek Dimensity 720 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 720 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 720 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 720 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (10W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

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)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +67%

391528

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +97%

774

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +133%

1861

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 720

326

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +2%

334

MediaTek Dimensity 720

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2000 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

10 W

TDP

11 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP3

GPU name

Adreno 530

850 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

3

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

12

Max size

8

0.3264 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 64MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2020

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6853V

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Dimensity 720

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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