Samsung Exynos 7420 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Samsung Exynos 7420

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 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 24.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +746%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +713%

6833

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2100 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

512 KB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

7 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

772 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

8

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

-

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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

Shannon 333

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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