Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 28nm)

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Score

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

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

2500 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

2 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

28 nm

Process

4 nm

1

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

578 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

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

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8974 v3

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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