MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +467%

1651

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +811%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3250 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Adreno 510

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

128

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.1536 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

2x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 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, VP8

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X8

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 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8956

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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