Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
Frequency
2840 MHz
3250 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
512 KB
-
L2 cache
0
1 MB
L3 cache
0
6 MB
Process
7 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
6.7
-
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 640
Mali-G720 MP7
GPU frequency
585 MHz
1300 MHz
Execution units
2
-
Shading units
384
128
Vulkan version
1.1
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
3.2
DirectX version
12.1
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.13 Gbit/s
68.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 690
-
Storage type
UFS 3.0
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2960 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
Video capture
4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, 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. 20
-
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 5000 Mbps
Up to 5170 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1240 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Dec 2018
May 2025
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
SM8150
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Official page

AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 880

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
592,031
1,675,507
Geekbench 6
939
1,617
Geekbench 6
2,855
6,406
FP32 (float)
898
2,329