The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Is Beaten By This Chip And It's Not The A15 Bionic
MediaTek's all-new Dimensity 8100 mobile SoC scores are higher in some benchmark results than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The report comes a couple of months after Geekbench 5 scores for the Dimensity 9000 showed that it was outpacing the Snapdragon flagship in both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads. However, the Qualcomm chip still managed to outscore the MediaTek silicon in terms of their GPU prowess in an AnTuTu benchmark late last year.
While most flagship phones from top brands ship with Qualcomm chips, MediaTek processors are typically found in mid-range and entry-level Android smartphones. However, if the new benchmark results are anything to go by, Mediatek has been bridging the gap with Qualcomm reasonably quickly. It won't be a significant surprise if MediaTek chips find their way to more premium devices sooner rather than later.
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MediaTek launched the Dimensity 8000 and 8100 this week, and now Geekbench results suggest that the latter trades blows with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in terms of performance. While the Dimensity 8100 edges out the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in the multi-core index, it loses handsomely to the Qualcomm chip in the single-core test. The MediaTek chip scored 3923 in the multi-core test and 969 in the single-core test on Geekbench 5, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 notched up 3752 on the multi-core index and 1231 on the single-core test. What's even more impressive about the Dimensity 8100 is that it is far more power-efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. According to a tweet by tipster Ome #Suriya$, while the Mediatek chip draws only 6.9W and 2.4W during the multi-core and single-core tests, the Qualcomm chip
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