MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
4210 MHz
2450 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L3 cache
16 MB
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Process
3 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
—
128 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
3
TDP
—
9 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Adreno 540
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
739 MHz
Shading units
128
384
Vulkan version
1.4
1.0
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
11
Execution units
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1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
29.8 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 2.1
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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)
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Hexagon 682
Max display resolution
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3840 x 2160
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 16
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Upload speed
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Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Nov 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
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MSM8998
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
339,384
Geekbench 6
3,781
415
Geekbench 6
12,189
1,519
FP32 (float)
5,376
567
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.