Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen1 holds its own against the MediaTek 9000+ SoC in Geekbench CPU benchmarks

The last time Qualcomm and MediaTek went head to head directly with their flagship chips, it did not end well for the former company. However, this time things are a bit different, the benchmark results for the new Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen1 chipset and the Dimensity 9000+ are officially out. The benchmark scores were revealed by Digital Chat Station and MySmartPrice for these chips earlier this week. The ASUS ROG Phone 6 will debut the former chip while a mystery smartphone flaunts the latter chipset.

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen1 and Dimensity 9000+ are eerily similar in terms of performance:

MediaTek’s latest flagship chip offers 5% better CPU performance and 10% GPU improvements in comparison to the MTK Dimensity 9000. The only change is an overclocked Cortex-X2 CPU core that runs at 3.2GHz.

Going by the official Geekbench listing with the code ‘alps k6983v1_64,’ the change from the Dimensity 9000 to the Plus version is 1,322 for single-core and 4,331 for multi-core tests. This marks a 3% bump in performance for the Plus version in the single-core benchmark from its predecessor.

The Dimensity 9000 scored 4,324 in the Geekbench multi-core tests, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen1 chip on the other hand has achieved a similar score in the same benchmark, it was sighted with the code ASUS_AI2201_F.

The 9000+ and the SD 8 Plus Gen1 are perfectly made to go against one another, in terms of CPU performance both are very similar, and the difference is almost negligible. In terms of GPU performance, we are not sure just yet as we do no know what the ARM Mali-G710 MP10 in the MediaTek chips are capable of but they are reportedly similar to the Adreno 730 that is seen on the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset while the Plus version has a better GPU that reportedly offers up to 10% higher clock speeds.

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