MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G . 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 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 8nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +118%

1651

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

756

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +283%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

1783

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3250 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

6 MB

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

8 nm

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Adreno 618

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

6

Execution units

2

-

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

0.384 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 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)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

384 kHz/32 bit

-

Modem

X15

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM7125

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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