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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520 1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Frequency 3300 MHz 4210 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L3 cache 0 16 MB
Process 4 nm 3 nm
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 750 Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
GPU frequency 903 MHz 1750 MHz
Execution units 2
Shading units 1536 128
Vulkan version 1.3 1.4
OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
DirectX version 12.1 12.1
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 5333 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 77 Gbit/s 85.3 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon
Storage type UFS 4.0 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV - AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 10700 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 7
Bluetooth 5.4 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Oct 2023 Sep 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8650-AB
Official page Official Link ↗ Official Link ↗
AI
NPU MediaTek NPU 990
Theoretical Performance 100 TOPS
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 2079542 4011932
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2181 3781
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 7250 12189
FP32 (float) 4730 5376