Samsung Exynos 980 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Samsung Exynos 980

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 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 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 8nm)

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980

869

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +89%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980

1867

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +265%

6833

Samsung Exynos 980

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

8 nm

Process

4 nm

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

728 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

5

Execution units

6

36

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Exynos 5123

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Dec 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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