MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
3250 MHz
1400 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
6 MB
-
Process
4 nm
28 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
-
128 KB
Transistor count
-
1
TDP
-
5 W

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 308
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
500 MHz
Shading units
128
24
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
3.2
1.2
DirectX version
12
11
Execution units
-
1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
667 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
5.34 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
1280 x 800
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
1K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Hexagon 536

Connectivity

5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 5
Upload speed
-
Up to 75 Mbps

Info

Announced
May 2025
Feb 2016
Class
Mid range
Low end
Official page
Model number
-
MSM8917

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
136,588
Geekbench 6
1,617
-
Geekbench 6
6,406
-
FP32 (float)
2,329
24