MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
3250 MHz
1800 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
6 MB
-
Process
4 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Transistor count
-
2
TDP
-
5 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Adreno 509
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
720 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
11
Execution units
-
1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
1333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
5.3 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
1900 x 1200
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 24MP, 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, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Hexagon 680
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 600 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. 13
Upload speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
220,696
Geekbench 6
1,617
295
Geekbench 6
6,406
1,088
FP32 (float)
2,329
184