Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +411%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +726%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2150 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

4

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 530

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

624 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

1

Execution units

6

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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