MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
3250 MHz
2450 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
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Process
4 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
—
128 KB
Transistor count
—
3
TDP
—
9 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 540
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
739 MHz
Shading units
128
384
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
11
Execution units
—
1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
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)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
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, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Hexagon 682
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 16
Upload speed
—
Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
May 2025
Nov 2016
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
—
MSM8998
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
339,384
Geekbench 6
1,617
415
Geekbench 6
6,406
1,519
FP32 (float)
2,329
567
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.