Xiaomi is well-known to adopt the latest Qualcomm chipsets in its range of smartphones and the Redmi K20, which recently launched in China and is coming to India soon, is the world’s first device to be powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 chipset. This is the latest addition to Qualcomm’s mid-range 700-series chipsets and is said to offer us a major punch over its predecessors.
Before we take a look at the comparison between the benchmark scores of these two chipsets, here’s a quick peek at the internal specifications of the Snapdragon 730 and Snapdragon 845:
You can see in the table above that octa-core Snapdragon 730 sports the latest Kryo 470 cores (2 performance and 6 efficiency cores), set at a lower clock speed, as compared to the Kryo 385 cores (4 performance and 4 efficiency cores) incorporated in the Snapdragon 845. The Adreno 630 GPU packed in the latter is more powerful than the Adreno 618 GPU inside the former.
Geekbench 4
We started off with the Geekbench 4 results and they came as a surprise to everyone at first. I mean, the Kryo 470 cores in the Snapdragon 730 are clocked at lower frequency, but they’re more powerful and efficient as compared to the Kryo 385 cores you’ll find in Snapdragon 845. And with a single-core score of 2534 and multi-core score of 7001, we thought that was the case against the Poco F1. However, the Poco F1 Geekbench scores seem to have lowered (device has slowed a little) over time, so we also picked the Snapdragon 845-backed OnePlus 6T.
Well, the AnTuTu benchmark score of the Snapdragon 730 lands in the 215,000 range, which I find is pretty good for a mid-range chipset of the 700-series, but it’s still much lower than the flagship Snapdragon 845. This is expected because AnTuTu not just takes into account the chipset’s CPU performance but also your GPU, memory. and user experience as well. It counts all of the essential parameters and that impacts the overall standing of the chipset.
PUBG Mobile runs on high graphics by default on the Redmi K20, which powered by the Snapdragon 730 chipset and I’ve faced no lags or tearing in the gameplay. We’ll test out the Redmi K20 more rigorously over the coming days and will let you all know about its overall performance.
Finally, I also decided to introduce the AITuTu benchmark into the mix to test whether a difference in AI processing capabilities on both the chipsets is found or not. And well, the results are right in front of you. While the AI engine on the Snapdragon 730 is a 4th-gen one, coupled with a newer Hexagon 688 DSP, as compared to the Snapdragon 845 which comes backed by a third-gen AI engine and Hexagon 685 DSP, the AITuTu benchmark scores for both the chipsets come out to be the same.
