Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs Dimensity 9400 SoCs by Qualcomm and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 678 16
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 10
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 29
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Dimensity 9400
CPU 101216 600293
GPU 51346 1194784
Memory 48181 408283
UX 82701 443652
Total score 283444 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 65% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3630 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 90.77% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1612 vs 845 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 150.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (5333 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 72.73% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (3 vs 11 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 833.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (2,647 K vs 283 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Dimensity 9400 8972

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Dimensity 9400

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Dimensity 9400

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Dimensity 9400

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Dimensity 9400

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Dimensity 9400

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Dimensity 9400

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Dimensity 9400

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

42%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 192
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 3.2
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 MediaTek NPU 890
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - -
  • 4G Download Speed 600 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed - -
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU
91%
GPU
94%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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