Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (5.9904 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus +889%

2305267

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus +1693%

5990

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720

2342 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

22.7

11 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1300 MHz

1

Execution units

12

256

Shading units

192

8

Max size

24

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

5.9904 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5T

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

MediaTek APU 790

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 790

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 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

MediaTek T830

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

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

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

May 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus

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