Overview - Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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 7 Gen 3 36
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 29
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 50
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Dimensity 9400
CPU 256787 600293
GPU 272332 1194784
Memory 177778 408283
UX 159966 443652
Total score 866863 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 38.02% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3630 vs 2630 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 66.66% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (5333 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 205.36% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (2,647 K vs 867 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375
Dimensity 9400 8972

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

65%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 720 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency - 1612 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 192
  • FLOPS - 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 3.2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes MediaTek NPU 890
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3360 x 1600 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, 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 Snapdragon X63 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 1600 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 7 Gen 3

CPU
36%
GPU
29%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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