MediaTek Dimensity 9400e vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X43x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency
3400 MHz
4610 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L3 cache
8 MB
8 MB
Process
4 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
22.7
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Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
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1792 KB
L2 cache
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24 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
Adreno 840
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1200 MHz
Shading units
128
512
Vulkan version
1.3
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OpenCL version
3.0
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DirectX version
12
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
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Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
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AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 790
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
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Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
8K 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
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 7300 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
6.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
4G support
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LTE Cat. 24
Info
Announced
May 2025
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
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SM8850
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,159,260
3,115,282
Geekbench 6
2,233
3,834
Geekbench 6
7,258
12,396
FP32 (float)
3,993
3,686
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.