MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 28nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3250 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Adreno 308

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

6

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8917

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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