Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. 8 cores 3400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400e . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Advantages
Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 3400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.9936 TFLOPS vs 3.3792 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 42.7GB/s)
Released 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
+42%
3070269
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
2159260
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
+44%
3234
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
2233
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
+38%
10059
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
7258
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
3379
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
+18%
3993
CPU
2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
Architecture
1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
4320 MHz
Frequency
3400 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8.7-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
24 MB
L2 cache
-
-
L3 cache
8 MB
3 nm
Process
4 nm
-
Transistor count
22.7
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 830
GPU name
Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
1100 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1536
Shading units
128
24
Max size
24
3.3792 TFLOPS
FLOPS
3.9936 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
3.0
OpenCL version
3.0
12.1
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
5300 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
42.7 GB/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
Hexagon
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 790
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Storage type
UFS 4.0
3840 x 2540
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Snapdragon X80
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7300 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
7
Wi-Fi
7
6.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Oct 2024
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8750-AB
Model number
-
