Today, Realme has released the Realme GT Neo 3 and the Neo 3T. The Realme GT Neo 3 is the primary smartphone to release within the UK/EU with the MediaTek Dimensity 8100, and depending on pricing, I think it is able to be one of the satisfactory phones available on the market.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 at the Neo 3T is a excellent chipset and one among my favourites from last 12 months, but how a lot distinction is there in performance among those two chipsets?
Feature Image: Realme GT Neo 3
Specification
| Dimensity 8100 | Snapdragon 870 | |
|---|---|---|
| Process | 5nm TSMC | 7nm FinFET |
| CPU | 4x Arm Cortex-A78 @ 2.85GHz 4x Arm Cortex-A55 @ 2Ghz |
1x Cortex-A77 @ 3.2GHz 3x Cortex-A77 @ 2.4GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz |
| GPU | Arm Mali-G610 MC6 | Adreno 650 |
MediaTek Dimensity 8100 vs Snapdragon 870 & Snapdragon 888 Antutu Benchmark
| Total | CPU | GPU | MEM | UX | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualcomm Snapdragon eight Gen 1 Honor Magic four Pro |
974703 | 204000 | 443463 | 155955 | 171285 |
| MediaTek Dimensity 8100 Realme GT Neo three |
799300 | 185692 | 312783 | 143928 | 156897 |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Realme GT |
797855 | 204680 | 309021 | 120085 | 164069 |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Realme GT Neo 3T |
660283 | 166920 | 239045 | 112940 | 141378 |
I reused an old table for those consequences, which additionally shows off the overall performance in comparison to final yr’s Snapdragon 888 and this 12 months’s modern flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon eight Gen 1.
The MediaTek Dimensity 8100 has very amazing consequences, not handiest being better than the SD870 however additionally last yr’s Snapdragon 888. This is very wonderful considering the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 is an upper mid-variety cellphone and likely more low-cost than the Realme GT 2.
Geekbench
- MediaTek Dimensity 8100
- Single Core: 964
- Multi Core: 4032
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
- Single Core: 1005
- Multi Core: 2946
The Geekbench results are quite exciting with the Dimensity having a decrease unmarried center however better multi core.
It looks as if the CPU frequencies have a larger impact than the newer A78 CPU architecture on the Dimensity 8100. The Snapdragon 870 has 12.28% higher frequencies on the unmarried center, although this does handiest result in a 4.25% benefit on the single core.
The Dimensity gains a substantial advantage for multi center overall performance having both a superior CPU structure and higher frequencies across the other cores. In this test, the Dimensity 8100 has a 37% advantage over the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870.
3-d Mark Wildlife Stress Test & Thermal Throttling
- MediaTek Dimensity 8100
- Best Loop: 5446
- Lowest Loop: 5399
- Stability:99.1%
- Battery: 100% to 94%
- Temperature: 32 to 38 degrees
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
- Best Loop: 4266
- Lowest Loop: 4235
- Stability: 99.Three%
- Battery: 83% to seventy four%
- Temperature: 25 to 39 ranges
Here we see the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 flex with extensively better overall performance than the Snapdragon 870.
Stability is nearly identical, however the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 has a excellent loop end result 27.7% higher than the Qualcomm. Battery drain is much less, and the temperature boom is significantly much less too.
What is more marvelous is that the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 is arguably higher than the flagship Snapdragon 888 from remaining yr, which also features at the Realme GT 2.
The SD888 has a better satisfactory loop rating of 5915 (8.6% higher), however it can’t maintain this performance for very lengthy intervals, and the low rating is eleven.8% decrease, battery drain is higher, and so is the temperature upward push (therefore the drop in overall performance).
The MediaTek Dimensity 8100 is an remarkable chipset for everyone searching out an low-priced gaming telephone.
PCMark Work 2.Zero and Battery Life
- MediaTek Dimensity 8100
- Single Run: 14422
- Average During Battery Test: 11400
- Battery Life: 11h 37 min
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
- Single Run: 13316
- Average During Battery Test: 10175
- Battery Life: 16h 17mins
I am not a large fan of the PCMark Work test, because the effects vary wildly depending on how a manufacturer comes to a decision to deal with CPU frequencies below distinctive workloads.
In the case of Realme, there may be usually a substantial dip in overall performance after a few minutes, I wager the good judgment here is that the underlying firmware identifies extended low-intensity duties and downclocks the CPU to favour battery.
The MediaTek Dimensity 8100 achieves a decent end result, however it’s miles disappointing that it’s so tons lower than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870. I hoped it’d be better than Qualcomm due to the advanced fabrication technique. I most effective ran the test as soon as, so there are a number of variables which can have an effect on this.
During day to day use, each phones were terrific for the battery.
Realme GT Neo 3 150W Charging Speeds
While this has no relation to the chipset, both of these telephones have 150W charging (I assume there might be different variations). As some distance as I am aware, that is the quickest of any telephone presently to be had in Western markets.
I tested the Realme GT Neo 3 from flat, starting the stopwatch as soon because the telephone had enough energy as well up. I suppose it confirmed 2% after I began the stopwatch and noted down the percentage charge at various instances:
- 25% in three minutes
- 30% in 3m35s
- 50% in 6m 30s
- sixty six% in 10 mins
- 75% in 11m 50s
- eighty% in 13 minutes
- 91% in sixteen mins
- ninety five% in 17m 20s
- 99% in 18m 40s
- a hundred% in 19 mins
I know quite a few human beings express problem approximately those charge speeds and the effect on a battery. For me, I usually sluggish fee overnight and use faster charging once I need a pinnacle-up.
In unique, these charge speeds are tremendous when you journey. I took the charger away with me on a recent journey, I took dozens of snap shots and used Google maps plenty, with the intention to speedy drain the battery in any phone. I usually have a short downtime within the motel before heading out within the evening; being capable of rate my telephone from flat to full in 20 mins is simply pretty handy, specifically for all and sundry that receives anxious approximately low battery.
Overall
The Snapdragon 870 turned into probably my preferred chipset from remaining yr, it had lots of performance and nevertheless does, however it failed to suffer from the identical thermal throttling and bad battery that the Snapdragon 888 had.
I actually have no longer had a risk to use the MediaTek flagship chipset yet, but the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 is wonderful. It has a similar stage of performance as the Snapdragon 888 with out all that stressful thermal throttling and poor battery.
In widespread, these higher mid-range chipsets from each Qualcomm and MediaTek are so correct these days there surely isn’t any want to spend the greater on a flagship cellphone only for chipset performance.
