MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus . 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 34.13GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2960MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +58%

1651

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

1040

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +138%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

2865

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

3250 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

6 MB

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.7

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Adreno 640

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

6

Execution units

2

-

Shading units

384

24

Max size

16

-

FLOPS

1.0368 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

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Jul 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8150-AC

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

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