MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
3250 MHz
2400 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache
1 MB
—
L3 cache
6 MB
—
Process
4 nm
6 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 610
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1110 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.1
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
12.1
Execution units
—
1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
17 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
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Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
1K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Hexagon 686
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 390 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 13
Upload speed
—
Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
May 2025
Oct 2021
Class
Mid range
Low end
Model number
—
SM6225
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
310,059
Geekbench 6
1,617
414
Geekbench 6
6,406
1,447
FP32 (float)
2,329
284
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.