Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
Frequency
1800 MHz
3250 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9-A
Process
14 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
2
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TDP
5 W
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Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L2 cache
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1 MB
L3 cache
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6 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 509
Mali-G720 MP7
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1300 MHz
Execution units
1
6
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.0
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
3.2
DirectX version
11
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
5.3 Gbit/s
68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
MediaTek NPU 880
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
2960 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
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5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 5170 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 4200 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Oct 2017
Dec 2024
Class
Mid range
Mid range
Model number
SDM636
MT6899, MT6899Z
AI
NPU
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MediaTek NPU 880
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
220,696
1,623,874
Geekbench 6
295
1,571
Geekbench 6
1,088
6,033
FP32 (float)
184
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.