MediaTek benchmarks the Dimensity 9000: faster CPU than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, slower GPU

17 December 2021
Not by much in both cases - the two chipsets perform within 15% of each other. 

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  • 17 Dec 2021

Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021How do these android chip still manage to be beaten by a tw... morewell, GB has been historically favours apple chips anyway, so nothing new, but like the other guy said, there are other things at play too.
There should be something like CB for phones!

    Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021This happened last year. It means nothing. When flagship... moreStop being a liar, if your having issues with coping that's OK

    The dimensity 1200 was nowhere close to the 888 last year

    This time around we are absolutely certain the snap 8 gen 1 and dimensity 9000 are of the same class

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      • Anonymous
      • 7kk
      • 17 Dec 2021

      the last benchmark-"We're impressed, is this legal?"
      LoL

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        • Yeu
        • 17 Dec 2021

        Mr. Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021Kudos to MTK for prioritizing CPU over GPU. I don't pl... moreReally man, i don't want to tell you what to buy or not, but if you are not gaming sd 778 or even better sd 870 will cover you just as well in a long run.
        They all already much cheaper than this.

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          • s87
          • 17 Dec 2021

          This has always been the case with Mediatek SOCs, the graphics is where they can't catch up, even today

            Mr. Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021Kudos to MTK for prioritizing CPU over GPU. I don't pl... morewhat you need? daily apps like facebook ig and editing video? You better suit with 778G or 1200 for that and cheaper.

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              • Anonymous
              • 8Kf
              • 17 Dec 2021

              S21 FE

              6/128: $749
              8/256: $819

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                • Anonymous
                • U@x
                • 17 Dec 2021

                IpsDisplay, 17 Dec 2021Pretty impressive from mediatek on the GPU They only us... moreWhats the max core count of 2022 Mali GPU?

                  Pretty impressive from mediatek on the GPU

                  They only use 10 cores on the GPU.. they didn't use max configuration to take the thrown

                  Maybe because of heating/stability

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 17 Dec 2021

                    Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021How do these android chip still manage to be beaten by a tw... more“How do these android chip still manage to be beaten by a two year old A13 in single core. Aren‘t these 1+3+4 architectures with one Cortex X1 made to achieve a very high single core score?”

                    Apple employs industry leaders in chip designing , they use custom version of ARM instruction set.

                    Mtk, Samsung, Qualcomm all use regular run of the mill version of ARM cores, that are designed by ARM Texas design team, and not the better french design team, it is rumoured that X3 core of next year will be a French team product.

                    Apple also uses massively optimised Metal API, Android can also reach those score but............it uses a mix of old OpenGL and newly Vulkan, but no one is using Vulkan, which is disappointing.

                    iOS is a native OS, Android still runs on a Virtual Machine (ART), which costs some perfomance.

                    A15 is full and full 64bit chip, SD Gen 1 and 9000 still have 32 bit compatible A710 cores in their SOC.

                    A15 has a massive die size and large amount of superfast and expensive cache, Dimensity is also using fast level cache now, but Snapdragon is stubbornly stick little Level cache, which is leaving a lot of performance on the table.

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                      • Anonymous
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                      • 17 Dec 2021

                      Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021This happened last year. It means nothing. When flagship... moreSnapdragon 8 Gen 1 on top of heat and power consumption.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 8Kf
                        • 17 Dec 2021

                        Then when devices get available, users feel zero difference compared to SD855.

                          Kudos to MTK for prioritizing CPU over GPU. I don't play games, so this SoC suits my needs better.

                            Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021How do these android chip still manage to be beaten by a tw... moreIt is bcz apple doesn't use big cores, it uses monstrous cores. Thats the reason why apple can accomodate only 2 of these cores while mtk and Snapdragon can 4.
                            In short, dimensity 9000 uses 5 lane wide cores vs 8 lane wide cores on apple socs.
                            But extra lane means extra power consumption too.
                            Eg, dimensity 9000 scores 1270 but consumes only 3 watt of power ( efficiency 423/w) vs A13 which scores 1350 while also consuming 4.25 w power ( efficiency 317/w).
                            But A13 is 2 year old chip.
                            So let's compare with latest chip a15.
                            A15 big core scores 1700 and consuming 4.1 watt of power (efficiency 414/w).
                            See dimensity 9000 actually is better than A15 here bcz its effiency is 423 vs 414 on A15. Reason dimensity made on 4nm vs a15 on 5nm.

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                              • 17 Dec 2021

                              I'm just curious about what apple really did with their A13 chip that made this huge difference in single core performance

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                                • Anonymous
                                • mAn
                                • 17 Dec 2021

                                This happened last year. It means nothing.

                                When flagship devices start being released, mark my word, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 will come out on top.

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                                  Anonymous, 17 Dec 2021How do these android chip still manage to be beaten by a tw... moretheir optimization is far superior than android SoC

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • 3SI
                                    • 17 Dec 2021

                                    How do these android chip still manage to be beaten by a two year old A13 in single core. Aren‘t these 1+3+4 architectures with one Cortex X1 made to achieve a very high single core score?

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                                      • Kxe
                                      • 17 Dec 2021

                                      Love Mediatek

                                        Love this new competition, will love to support another chip then the SD US chip.
                                        The competion get closer day by day 🙏🏻
                                        So many phones out there with Mediatek chip inside 🎅