MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
Frequency
4210 MHz
2150 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L3 cache
16 MB
-
Process
3 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
64 KB
L2 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
2
TDP
-
11 W

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Adreno 530
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
624 MHz
Shading units
128
256
Vulkan version
1.4
1.0
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
11
Execution units
-
1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
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
-
Theoretical Performance
100 TOPS
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
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
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Hexagon 680
Max display resolution
-
3840 x 2160

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Upload speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps

Info

Announced
Sep 2025
Nov 2015
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Official page
Model number
-
MSM8996

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
260,148
Geekbench 6
3,781
323
Geekbench 6
12,189
827
FP32 (float)
5,376
319