Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . 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 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 8nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

699

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +136%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

1817

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +276%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

8 nm

Process

4 nm

3 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 619

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

825 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

2

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.4224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X51

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 800 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Dec 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM4350

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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