Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 3200MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7913 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +412%

1193511

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +323%

1654

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +466%

4517

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +436%

1791

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2342 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

4 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G710 MP10

653 MHz

GPU frequency

933 MHz

1

Execution units

10

256

Shading units

96

8

Max size

24

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7913 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 590

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP, 3x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jul 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6983Z

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

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