MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2450MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +297%

1651

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +349%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

1519

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

3250 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

3

-

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Adreno 540

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

6

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

384

24

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X16

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Nov 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8998

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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