MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

SOC · Specs Compare

Products
CPU
Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
4210 MHz
2800 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L3 cache
16 MB
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Process
3 nm
6 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Adreno 610
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
950 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.4
1.1
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12.1
Execution units
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1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
17 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 990
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Theoretical Performance
100 TOPS
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Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
UFS 2.2
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
1K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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)
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Hexagon 686
Max display resolution
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2520 x 1080
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 13
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 390 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed
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Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Mar 2023
Class
Flagship
Low end
Official page
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Model number
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SM6225-AD
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
354,293
Geekbench 6
3,781
475
Geekbench 6
12,189
1,517
FP32 (float)
5,376
243
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.