Mediatek Dimensity 9300 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Mediatek Dimensity 9300 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz Mediatek Dimensity 9300 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (5.9904 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 +789%

2073613

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 +469%

2225

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 +885%

7857

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 +1693%

5990

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Mediatek Dimensity 9300

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

3250 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

14 nm

22.7

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12

GPU name

Adreno 530

1300 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

-

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

256

24

Max size

8

5.9904 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4

9600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

76.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 7000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2023

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Mediatek Dimensity 9300

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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