MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . 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 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

3250 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Adreno 506

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

96

24

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

X9

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 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

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8953

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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