Samsung Exynos 7872 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Samsung Exynos 7872

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 7872 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 3.7GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Score

Samsung Exynos 7872

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP1

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

1200 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

1

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.0384 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

3.7 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

1K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 120FPS

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2018

Announced

Dec 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

S5E7872

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 7872

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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