Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 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 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +689%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +645%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

1 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

1

Execution units

6

96

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.5 GB/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF

Audio codecs

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

X9

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Dec 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953 Pro

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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