MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X32x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7152x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7103x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
Frequency
4210 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9-A
L3 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
4 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L2 cache
-
0
TDP
-
6.3 W

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Adreno 740
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
680 MHz
Shading units
128
1280
Vulkan version
1.4
1.3
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12.1
Execution units
-
2

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
4200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
64 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
MediaTek NPU 990
-
Theoretical Performance
100 TOPS
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 200MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Hexagon
Max display resolution
-
3840 x 2160

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
6.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Upload speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps

Info

Announced
Sep 2025
Nov 2022
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Official page
Model number
-
SM8550-AB

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
1,534,534
Geekbench 6
3,781
2,004
Geekbench 6
12,189
5,344
FP32 (float)
5,376
3,481