Dimensity 1100, A top-tier chipset from MediaTek up against and Qualcomm’s previous flagship Snapdragon 865. Below you will find a detailed comparison between Snapdragon 865 and Dimensity with AnTuTu, Geekbench, and gaming benchmarks.
You will find Dimensity 1100 in Vivo S9, Vivo S10, Realme Q3 Pro, POCO X3 GT some more smartphones. Snapdragon 865 is quite more popular and it’s part of smartphones like Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, OnePlus 8T, Mi 10, and plenty of others
Before we proceed to benchmarks, let’s take a look at the specifications comparison of both chipsets
Specifications
CPU
| Dimensity 1100 | Snapdragon 865 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cores | 8 2x 2.3GHz – Cortex A76(Kryo 465 Gold) 6x 1.8GHz – Cortex A55(Kryo 465 Silver) | 8 2x 2.2GHz – Cortex A76(Kryo 460 Gold) 6x 1.8GHz – Cortex A55(Kryo 460 Silver) |
| Clock speed | 2600 MHz | 2840 MHz |
| Fabrication Process | 6nm | 7nm |
| Architecture | ARMv8-A | ARMV8.2-A |
| L1 Cache | – | 512 kb |
| L2 Cache | 2 Mb | 1 Mb |
| L3 Cache | 3 Mb | 4 Mb |
| TDP | 10W | 10W |
Both have an octa-core processor. However, Dimensity is 6nm with four Cortex A-78 running at 2.6GHz and four efficiency Cortex A55 running at 1.8GHz. Snapdragon 865 is a 7nm chipset, with a slightly different core arrangement. It has one 2.84GHz Cortex A-77 core along with three 2.45GHz Cortex-A78 secondary cores and four 1.8 GHz Cortex A55 power-efficient cores.
GPU
| Dimensity 1100 | Snapdragon 865 | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Mali-G77 MC9 | Adreno 650 |
| GPU clock speed | 850 MHz | 587 MHz |
| GPU execution units | 11 | 2 |
| Shading unit | 114 | 512 |
| FLOPS | 1126 | 1228 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2.0 |
Mali G77 MC9 has more GPU clock and execution units, on the other hand, Snapdragon 865 has more shading units and FLOPS. They both have their own gaming features like Qualcomm Elite gaming and MediaTek Hyper engine 3.0
Multimedia and Memory
| Dimensity 1100 | Snapdragon 865 | |
|---|---|---|
| Display resolution | 2520 x 1080 pixels | 3840 x 2160 pixels |
| Camera resolution | 2 x 32+16 megapixels max 108 megapixel | 2 x 25 megapixels(dual) max 200 megapixel |
| Video resolution | 8k @ 30fps | 4k @ 60fps |
| Storage | UFS 3.1 | UFS 3.1 |
| AI Engine | MediaTek APU 3.0 | Hexagon 698 |
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory speed | 4266 MHz | 2750 MHz |
| Size | 8 GB | 8GB |
| Bus | 4 x 16 bit | 4 x 16 bit |
| Bandwidth | unknown | 44 Gbps |
Snapdragon 865 supports more display resolution and it has LPDDR5 RAM. Dimensity 1100 can capture 8K videos and supports faster LPDDR4X RAM.
Connectivity and Other info
| Dimensity 1100 | Snapdragon 865 | |
|---|---|---|
| Modem | Helio M70 5G, LTE Cat. 19 | X55, LTE Cat. 24 |
| Download speed | 4700 Mbps | 2000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | 2500 Mbps | 316 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.1 |
| Release date | January 2021 | December 2019 |
Dimensity 1100 is a way ahead here with almost 2x download speed, 7x upload speed, and the latest Bluetooth 5.2
Benchmarks
This is an AnTutu, Geekbench 5, and gaming benchmarks comparison between Dimensity 1100 and snapdragon 865.
AnTuTu
| Dimensity 1100(Vivo S9) | Snapdragon 865(Mi 10 Pro) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 6,08,765(+2.5%) | 5,93,857 |
Geekbench 5
| Single-core | 819(-8.6%) | 890 |
| Multi-core | 3240(-0.9%) | 3269 |
Gaming Performance
| PUBG Mobile (high) | 49 fps | 61 fps |
| Call of Duty: Mobile (ultra) | 57 fps | 60 fps |
| Genshin Impact (Ultra) | 50 fps | 59 fps |
| Fortnite(High) | 25 fps | 30 fps |
| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (Ultra) | 61 fps | 57 fps |
Conclusion
So which one is better out of these two? Snapdragon 865 is slightly behind the AnTuTu score. It’s the same story in Geekbench 5 benchmarks. In multi-core benchmarks, they are almost identical
At first glance, Dimensity 1100 seems to have a better GPU. Maybe it’s more shading units or well-optimized elite gaming feature, but in almost every game Snapdragon 865 is better.
Even for year older chipset, Snapdragon 865 still holds up pretty well and gives better performance in gaming that’s it will the winner here. Yes, connectivity options are still better on Dimensity 1100, but that won’t appeal to most people.
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