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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53 1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Frequency 1800 MHz 4210 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
Process 14 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 2
TDP 3 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
L3 cache 16 MB
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 506 Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
GPU frequency 600 MHz 1750 MHz
Execution units 1
Shading units 96 128
Vulkan version 1.0 1.4
OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
DirectX version 11 12.1
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR3 LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 933 MHz 5333 MHz
Bus 1x 32 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 7.46 Gbit/s 85.3 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 546
Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 1920 x 1200
Max camera resolution 1x 21MP, 2x 13MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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. 7 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 300 Mbps Up to 10700 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7
Bluetooth 4.1 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Jun 2017 Sep 2025
Class Low end Flagship
Model number SDM450
Official page Official Link ↗ Official Link ↗
AI
NPU MediaTek NPU 990
Theoretical Performance 100 TOPS
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 153310 4011932
Geekbench 6 Single Core 169 3781
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 763 12189
FP32 (float) 115 5376