MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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MediaTek Dimensity 9400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3630MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.9521 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (85.3GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3630MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +1099%

2647012

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +2591%

4952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

CPU

1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

3630 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

12 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

15 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12

GPU name

Adreno 509

1612 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

-

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

4.9521 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1843 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

3.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

5333 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

85.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.3 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 890

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

6.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2024

Announced

Oct 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MT6991

Model number

SDM636

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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