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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53) 1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
Frequency 2450 MHz 3250 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB
L2 cache 0 1 MB
Process 10 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 3
TDP 9 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
L3 cache 6 MB
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 540 Mali-G720 MP7
GPU frequency 739 MHz 1300 MHz
Execution units 1
Shading units 384 128
Vulkan version 1.0 1.3
OpenCL version 2.0 3.2
DirectX version 11 12
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 2x 32 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 682
Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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. 16
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 1000 Mbps Up to 5170 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Nov 2016 May 2025
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number MSM8998
Official page Official Link ↗ Official Link ↗
AI
NPU MediaTek NPU 880
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 339384 1675507
Geekbench 6 Single Core 415 1617
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 1519 6406
FP32 (float) 567 2329