MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Samsung Exynos 9820
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M42x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A754x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
4210 MHz
2730 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L3 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
8 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
L1 cache
—
192 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
8.5
TDP
—
9 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Mali-G76 MP12
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
702 MHz
Shading units
128
36
Vulkan version
1.4
1.3
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12
Execution units
—
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
33.4 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, UFS 3.0
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Yes
Max display resolution
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3840 x 2400
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 20
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 2000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed
—
Up to 316 Mbps
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Nov 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
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S5E9820
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
648,880
Geekbench 6
3,781
747
Geekbench 6
12,189
2,333
FP32 (float)
5,376
607
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.