MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
Frequency
3250 MHz
2150 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
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Process
4 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
64 KB
Transistor count
—
2
TDP
—
11 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 530
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
624 MHz
Execution units
6
1
Shading units
128
256
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
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
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Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
Hexagon 680
Storage type
UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
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
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 4200 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. 12
Info
Announced
Dec 2024
Nov 2015
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
MT6899, MT6899Z
MSM8996
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,623,874
260,148
Geekbench 6
1,571
323
Geekbench 6
6,033
827
FP32 (float)
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319
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.