Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 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 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Released 7 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

566

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +191%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

2075

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +229%

6833

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2800 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

256 KB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

0

L3 cache

6 MB

10 nm

Process

4 nm

3

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 630

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

710 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

2

Execution units

6

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.727 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

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 685

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 192MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X20

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2017

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SDM845

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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