MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 9400

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3630MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (85.3GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3630MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +1035%

2647012

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +1382%

4952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

3630 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

12 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

15 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12

GPU name

Adreno 530

1612 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

-

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

24

Max size

8

4.9521 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 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

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

85.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 890

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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. 12

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

6.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2024

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MT6991

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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