Samsung Exynos 980 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A776x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Frequency
2200 MHz
4210 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
8 nm
3 nm
TDP
9 W
-
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L3 cache
-
16 MB

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G76 MP5
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
GPU frequency
728 MHz
1750 MHz
Execution units
5
-
Shading units
36
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.4
OpenCL version
2.0
3.0
DirectX version
12
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
5333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
85.3 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
-
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 120FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
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. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 3550 Mbps
Up to 10700 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1380 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Sep 2019
Sep 2025
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
S5E9630
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Official page

AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 990
Theoretical Performance
-
100 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
433,794
4,011,932
Geekbench 6
869
3,781
Geekbench 6
1,867
12,189
FP32 (float)
262
5,376