Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 24
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 19
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 39
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Dimensity 9400
CPU 143028 600293
GPU 179320 1194784
Memory 69420 408283
UX 72190 443652
Total score 463958 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 22.64% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3630 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 138.81% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1612 vs 675 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 150.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (5333 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 470.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (2,647 K vs 464 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Dimensity 9400 8972

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Dimensity 9400

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Dimensity 9400

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Dimensity 9400

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Dimensity 9400

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Dimensity 9400

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Dimensity 9400

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Dimensity 9400

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 12 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 192
  • FLOPS 1037 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 34.13 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 MediaTek NPU 890
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed 2000 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed 1200 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 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 860

CPU
24%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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