Qualcomm and MediaTek as direct competitors, N times a year, "Snapdragon vs. Dimensity" has become a must-have program in the machine circle after dinner, in the case of Snapdragon's stable performance in the past two years, the competition between the two has gradually entered the white-hot stage, does Dimensity still have a chance?
Source: Qualcomm.
Don't say it, the Dimensity 9300 really has something special. Two days ago, a digital blogger revealed the Antutu running score of the iQOO Neo9 Pro mobile phone, with a total score of 2334911 points, which directly refreshed the highest running score record of the Dimensity 9300 chip. The Dimensity 9300 is undoubtedly a bold attempt with a slightly aggressive core count and clock configuration, and if successful, it will once again compete with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 in the high-end chip market and compete for more market share.
Without further ado, let's go straight to today's "flagship chip" Armageddon!
First of all, let's take a look at the specific parameters of the two flagship chips. Qualcomm's iteration is relatively stable, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 only removes a small core and adds a large core, and the chip architecture basically meets everyone's expectations;On the other hand, MediaTek is very aggressive, choosing to directly erase the small core, and moved out of the "4+4" core architecture of 4 X4 super large core + 4 A720 large cores.
Of course, aggressive performance will inevitably bring a heavier burden on power consumption, and we will leave the specific situation for later evaluation after testing.
Source: MediaTek.
In terms of GPU, the Snapdragon 8Gen 3 is still its own iteration of the Adreno750, with a frequency of about 770MHz;The Dimensity 9300 is a new generation of the Immortalis G720 with a frequency of around 1300MHzIn terms of memory specifications, the Dimensity 9300 is also better, and it is the first to support LPDDR5T, with a rate of up to 9600Mbps, and the machine we tested today is LPDDR5T.
In addition, the two flagship chips are TSMC's new generation of 4nm process technology, just looking at the data on paper, it seems that the Dimensity 9300 is ahead of the Snapdragon 8gen 3 in all aspects, so will there be a situation of "the parameters have not been lost, the experience has not been won"?Let's move on.
Source: Lei Technology Room temperature environment.
The first project to be carried out is the score comparison. The participating test machines are the mass production models on sale of the two manufacturers, and the memory specifications are the top version of "16GB+1T". In an environment with a room temperature of about 20, Xiaolei turns on the performance mode, the lowest brightness, and clears the background processThe Antutu running score obtained by the test is as above, and we see that the Dimensity 9300 is nearly 200,000 points ahead of the Snapdragon 8gen3 under this condition.
Source: Lei Technology Low temperature environment.
Limited by the temperature, there must be room for improvement in the running scores of the two chips, Xiao Lei then threw the two mobile phones into the refrigerator and let them fight again in the low temperature environment of the refrigerator to see if the score will change. After the refrigerator ran the score, the score difference did shrink a little, but it was only about 10,000 points.
Source: Lei Technology.
The test results of the two phones in Geekbench 6 are as follows, with the single-core scores of the two sides being relatively close, and the multi-core score of the Dimensity 9300 is again a big cut ahead.
Judging from the running score alone, this battle is also the Dimensity 9300 beating the Snapdragon 8gen3, but such a performance is also expected, after all, if the combination of "4+4" can't win the running score, it is really intolerable.
The configuration running score has been won, what will be the actual game performance of the Dimensity 9300?Let's take a look at the results of their gaming tests. Genshin Impact, which runs for an hour in the highest brightness, full high image quality, highest frame rate, and performance mode, still runs back and forth in Sumeru City to see how the two phones perform.
Source: Lei Technology.
First of all, looking at the Snapdragon 8gen 3 model, Genshin Impact has an average one-hour frame rate of 59 frames. Observing the curve of the frame rate fluctuation, we can see that although the whole process is basically stable at 60 frames, there will be an instantaneous frame drop of one second every short period of time, which is reflected in the graph, which is reflected in the dense downward "thorn", so the final average frame rate does not stabilize at 60 frames.
The core release frequency curve of the processor is also very distinctive, and it is obvious that the two small cores are basically in a smooth straight line at 900MHz, paddling the whole way;The ultra-large core jumps horizontally between 1075MHz and 499MHzThe main output is the 5 large cores with a very conspicuous fluctuation amplitude, the highest frequency can reach 2515MHz, and the average frequency of one hour is 1793MHz. Just looking at the frequency release, this is obviously not running to the peak state of the Snapdragon 8gen 3.
Source: Lei Technology.
What about the Dimensity 9300?Genshin Impact averages 60 frames per hour. The Dimensity 9300's frame rate graph is much more stable than that of the Snapdragon 8gen 3, with fewer and shorter downward "thorns", and the final average frame rate is fixed at 60 frames.
The core architecture of Dimensity 9300 is different, and the frequency release strategy is also different, with an average frequency of only 756MHz for the 4 large cores, but the frequency has soared to about 1800MHz several times when it is neededResponsible for the main output is these 4 X4 super large cores,The average frequency of the game for an hour is1068MHz,The limit release frequency has reached3250MHz and 2850MHz,Although the image shows a short 4 touches,But this is already the full frequency state of the Dimensity 9300 super large core。
From the game test results, we can see that the Dimensity 9300's frequency release is as aggressive as its architecture, and I believe that the Snapdragon 8gen 3 pulls the release frequency of the super-large core up to make Genshin Impact run to 60 fps is completely fine, so why doesn't it do it?Obviously, it is still balancing heat and power consumption. The Snapdragon 8 Gen3 model consumes an average of 4 per hour8W, the maximum temperature of the fuselage at the end of the test was 424, which is already a good level, but the average power consumption of the Dimensity 9300 model is 44W, the maximum body temperature at the end of the test is 380, this gap came out all of a sudden.
Source: Lei Technology.
If you put aside these high-load scenarios, will the Dimensity 9300 be better than the Snapdragon 8gen 3 without the blessing of small cores in daily use?Not much to say, let's just look at the test results of the "Lei Technology four-hour battery life model".
Source: Lei Technology.
At the end of the four-hour test, the remaining power of the two mobile phones was 60% and 54% respectively, excluding the difference in the battery capacity of the mobile phone, the specific power consumption was 2928mAh and 2916mAh respectively, combined with the difference in hardware factors such as manual maximum brightness and screen resolution. On the whole, the power consumption of Dimensity 9300 in daily use is still higher.
However, judging from the heating situation during our test, the Dimensity 9300 did not have too high heat in daily application, and the strategy of canceling small nuclear reactors and large nuclear cores did not overturn.
In scenarios such as parameters, running scores, and heavy loads, the Dimensity 9300 is indeed better than the Snapdragon 8gen 3 in this test, and although the battery life results of low-load applications are not much different, the screen configuration specifications of the Snapdragon 8gen 3 model are higherAt the same hardware level, the Snapdragon 8gen 3 still has better daily performance.
Judging by the results of our tests, the performance of the Dimensity 9300 this year is indeed suitable for the gaming party,But it's still a cliché,MediaTek's reputation at the image level has not been very good,The effect of the actual comparison is also difficult to talk about,After all, the image stacking of each machine is different,It's hard to say how much the chip itself plays a role in it。