This afternoon, MediaTek officially released its Dimensity 820 chipset. The vice president of Xiaomi Group and Redmi Brand, Lu Weibing, was also invited to the launch event of this chipset.
In the launch event, he revealed that Redmi will launch the Redmi 10X, which will be powered by the latest Dimensity 820 5G chipset. The Redmi 10X will be the first phone using the chipset, which has already scored 409,449 on the AnTuTu benchmark.
We had also done a benchmark test on the Redmi 10X engineering prototype. We got a score of 409,449 on AnTuTu, while on GeekBench, we got a score of 646 on single-core and 2529 on multi-core.
According to the mobile SOC performance ranking, Dimensity 820 currently ranks 16th overall, far exceeding Snapdragon 765G, slightly exceeding Kirin 820, and close to Kirin 985. In particular, multi-core performance is enough to reach the top ten level.
The Dimensity 820 5G is produced on 7nm and has eight cores. The first four performance cores are ARM Cortex-A76 at 2.6 GHz, while the other four are ARM Cortex-A55 at 2 GHz.
The official claims that its single-core performance is 7% higher than Snapdragon 765G, and its multi-core performance is 37% higher. The Dimensity 820 processor has a Mali-G57 MC5 GPU and the same Valhall architecture as in Dimensity 1000+.
The Dimensity 820 has the world’s most advanced M70 5G baseband, which supports NSA/SA 5G Network, 5G + 5G dual card standby, and 5G dual-carrier aggregation. It also features the latest UltraSave 5G power-saving technology. MediaTek also claims that the Dimensity 820 is better than the Snapdragon 765G in terms of power consumption and speed.
The Dimensity 820 supports Mediatek Imagiq 5.0 image processing technology, also uses 4-core HDR-ISP, supports up to 80 million pixel multi-camera combination, and can shoot multiple frames in 4K HDR video.
The chipset has the exclusive MediaTek MiraVision image quality engine, which supports a maximum screen refresh rate of 120Hz and HDR10+. It also supports HyperEngine gaming technology for a better gaming environment.
