Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 14
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 9
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 34
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Dimensity 9400
CPU 81894 600293
GPU 39122 1194784
Memory 77991 408283
UX 71216 443652
Total score 270223 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 29.64% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3630 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 150.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (5333 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 879.57% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (2,647 K vs 270 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Dimensity 9400 8972

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency - 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 192
  • FLOPS - 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 17 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 MediaTek NPU 890
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - -
  • 4G Download Speed 390 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed - -
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
14%
GPU
9%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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