MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Frequency
3250 MHz
3000 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache
1 MB
1 MB
L3 cache
6 MB
8 MB
Process
4 nm
4 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
TDP
-
6 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 735
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1100 MHz
Shading units
128
256
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
12.1
Execution units
-
2
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
67.2 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 200MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Hexagon
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 6500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
6.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 22
Upload speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
1,490,645
Geekbench 6
1,617
2,019
Geekbench 6
6,406
5,570
FP32 (float)
2,329
1,689