MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
3250 MHz
2450 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
-
Process
4 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
-
128 KB
Transistor count
-
3
TDP
-
9 W

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 540
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
739 MHz
Execution units
6
1
Shading units
128
384
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
11

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
29.8 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
Hexagon 682
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 16

Info

Announced
Dec 2024
Nov 2016
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
MT6899, MT6899Z
MSM8998
Official page

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,623,874
339,384
Geekbench 6
1,571
415
Geekbench 6
6,033
1,519
FP32 (float)
-
567