Dimensity 9300 vs. Snapdragon 8 Gen3: More than 10 data measurements Who is the king of Android?

1. Foreword: All-big core Dimensity 9300 front hard steel Snapdragon 8 Gen3 Who is the king of Android chips?

This year, the two mobile chip manufacturers have begun to amplify their moves, Snapdragon debuted Cortex-X4 super large core, MediaTek is not to be outdone, the first time to introduce the concept of "all large core" into mobile terminals, and both in CPU, GPU performance at the same time, further control power consumption.

So, who is the real king of Android flagships in these two high-profile flagship chips?

Today, we will use two mobile phones equipped with Dimensity 9300 and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 to do a detailed test comparison.

Considering that different brands of mobile phone manufacturers have different tuning strategies for chips, we will use different chip models of the same brand for comparison.

To this end, we found a more representative Dimensity 9300 flagship on the market, iQOO Neo9 Pro, and another Snapdragon 8 Gen3 flagship, iQOO 12 Pro.

To ensure the accuracy of the test, we chose to conduct the test in an office environment with a room temperature of 24 degrees Celsius, during which we turned off the phone's memory expansion function, turned off the performance mode, adjusted the phone's brightness to 50% and turned off the auto-brightness.

Through the benchmark data, game frame rate, fluctuation, temperature, power consumption, energy efficiency ratio and other data, the differences and advantages of the two processors are comprehensively evaluated.

Before the test, let's first take a look at the basic specifications of the Dimensity 9300 and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chips:

2. Theoretical performance test: Dimensity multi-core performance kills Snapdragon in seconds, but the GPU is still weak

——Antutu V10 comprehensive test

In the comprehensive performance test of the latest version of Antutu V10, the Dimensity 9300 scored 2.091 million, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 scored 2.209 million points, which is about 5.64% better than the Dimensity.

——GeekBench6测试

Then we conducted a single CPU test on the two mobile phones, don't look at the Dimensity 9300's large-core frequency is 0.05GHz lower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, but the two are almost tied, and with its all-large-core advantage, it surpasses the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 in multi-core performance by 566 points, leading by 8.15%, this result also continues the excellent performance of the previous generation of Dimensity processors in multi-core performance.

Then we looked at the single-core power consumption of the two phones, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3's 3.3GHz Cortex-X4 ultra-large core power consumption is 2.01W, and the Dimensity 9300's 3.25GHz Cortex-X4 ultra-large core power consumption is 1.73W, and the Dimensity ultra-large core power consumption is about 16.18% lower than that of Snapdragon.

In terms of multi-core power consumption, this time the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 has the advantage of low energy consumption of the Cortex-A520 small core, and the overall power consumption is nearly 9% lower than that of the Dimensity 9300.

Under the premise that the super-core score is almost the same, the Dimensity 9300's energy efficiency ratio reaches 1301.7FPS/W, which obtains a higher score with lower power consumption, but with the blessing of the super-large core, although its multi-core performance is stronger, the power consumption also increases, nearly 9 percentage points higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, resulting in an energy efficiency ratio that is not as good as the latter.

- GFXBench test

In GFXBench's six 1080P tests, the first Aztec Ruins OpenGL, the Dimensity 9300 surpassed the 192FPS of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 with 210FPS by about 9.4%, but in the next five tests, it was surpassed by the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 by 12%~18.9% in different proportions.

So from this point, it can be inferred that the Dimensity 9300's high load stability is not as good as that of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3.

To confirm this hypothesis, we conducted a 3D Mark stability stress test on each of the two phones.

——3D Mark Wild Life

Before going to the stress test, we tested the Dimensity 9300 and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 with regular 3D Mark Wild Life GPU scores.

It can be seen that the Dimensity 9300 scored 96.5, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 scored 97.8, and the gap is not obvious.

In terms of power consumption, there is not much difference, the Dimensity 9300 consumes 13.15W, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 consumes 12.73W, the difference between the two is only 3.3%.

——3D Mark Wild Extreme Life Stress Test

This was followed by a GPU stress test with a 20-minute high-load stability test using 3D Mark Wild Extreme Life Stress.

After a 20-minute test, the Dimensity 9300 scored 3770 points, a far cry from the Snapdragon 8 Gen3's 5162 points, with a gap of 36.92%, the lowest score of 3071 points, and a 56.69% gap with the Snapdragon 8 Gen3's 4812 points.

In terms of stability, the difference between the Dimensity 9300 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is about 10%.

Through the comparison of the above data, in terms of theoretical performance release, the CPU performance of the Dimensity 9300 has surpassed that of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, but in exchange for high power consumption, the energy efficiency ratio has to be the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, and the same is true in terms of GPU, the performance and energy efficiency ratio of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 have surpassed the Dimensity 9300.

3. Game measurement: Dimensity game frame rate, fluctuation, power consumption, and energy efficiency ratio surpass Snapdragon in an all-round way

Theoretical performance belongs to theoretical performance, so how big is the gap between the actual game experience? In this regard, we also used two mobile phones to carry out game tests with medium and high loads, and the representative mobile games are "Peace Elite" and "Genshin Impact".

It should be noted that in the game test, the interpolation and super-resolution super-picture functions are not turned on to ensure that the most original picture is directly rendered and output by the Soc, and the brightness of the two mobile phones is consistent, and the "Peace Elite" mobile game uniformly uses HDR high-definition image quality +60 frame mode test, and the "Genshin Impact" mobile game uniformly uses the highest image quality +60 frames to run the map under a fixed route.

- Peace Elite

Both the Dimensity 9300 and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 support 60 fps in HDR quality, with a frame rate of 59.9 FPS.

However, in terms of frame rate jitter, the Dimensity showed 0.9 small jitter, Snapdragon did not have one, and neither showed severe jitter, and the game stabilized the frame rate, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 led by one game.

The Dimensity 9300 consumes 2.64W for gaming, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 consumes 3.09W, which is 17% higher than the Dimensity 9300.

——Genshin Impact

Then we tested the high-load Genshin Impact mobile game, only running the map during the game, not fighting monsters, and we also obtained the window resolution of the game's screen, both phones happened to be 810×1800, which can better ensure the objectivity of the game test.

After the game, the advantages of the Dimensity 9300 are revealed, and in the case of close to full frame, the frame rate of the Dimensity 9300 in the game is significantly lower than that of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, which means that the Dimensity has a stronger frame stabilization ability than the Snapdragon.

In terms of power consumption, both have fallen below 5W, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 power consumption of 4.35W and the Dimensity 9300 power consumption of 4.18W, which is about 4% lower than the Snapdragon, which is a small difference that is also negligible.

Finally, the energy efficiency ratio, because the frame rate and power consumption are not much different, so the gap between the two in terms of energy efficiency is not too big, but from the data point of view, the Dimensity 9300 is still nearly 3.7% ahead of the Xiaolong 8 Gen3.

4. Summary: The rise of Fa Ge in 2024 The comprehensive strength of the Dimensity 9300 is not inferior to the Snapdragon 8 Gen3

MediaTek, as a fabless semiconductor company, after 26 years of development, has gradually risen from a small chip factory, ranking year by year, and now it has become the fourth largest semiconductor company in the world, second only to Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom.

Since the world's first ten-core mobile platform Helio X20, MediaTek has been committed to building a top-of-the-line chip at the same level as Qualcomm to compete with Snapdragon, but its comprehensive performance has always lagged behind a generation, especially the rendering ability of graphics.

However, MediaTek was not discouraged, always insisted on innovation, and actively adopted the latest technology and technology, and in 2016, the world's first 10nm chip, for the first time in the manufacturing process ahead of Qualcomm.

In today's 5G era, in order to better develop 5G chips, MediaTek launched a new Dimensity 1000 series in 2020, which has been comprehensively improved in terms of architecture, instructions, manufacturing process, etc., and the following year, in order to point to Snapdragon 8 Gen1, launched the Dimensity 9000 series chips that won 10 global firsts, so far, the gap between MediaTek and Snapdragon's top chips is gradually narrowing.

The Dimensity 9300 chip at the end of 2023 has introduced the design concept of "all-large core", and the multi-core performance crushes the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, and the comprehensive performance has finally reached the level comparable to the Snapdragon 8 Gen3.

In our tests, while Snapdragon still had a huge advantage in terms of theoretical performance, it backfired in actual gaming performance.

The Dimensity 9300's Snapdragon 8 Gen3's high-load gaming power consumption has fallen below 5W at almost the same gaming frame rate, surpassing Qualcomm's frame stabilization, power consumption, and energy efficiency ratio for the first time.

Therefore, the theoretical performance belongs to the theoretical performance, and the specific performance can only be fully demonstrated in actual use.

In the past, we could say that power consumption, energy efficiency, and frame rate could not be combined, but in the 2023~2024 stage, this conventional perception has obviously been broken.

In the past, Snapdragon has always been the first brother of gaming, and MediaTek in 2023, with its advanced manufacturing process, all-large-core CPU design, full-link optimized AI, powerful GPU and comprehensive and balanced platform technology, has finally achieved the ability to match or even surpass the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 in terms of gaming experience.

In the past, Snapdragon was the first choice for gaming. Now, with the rise of the Dimensity 9300, gamers finally have more options.