Overview - Snapdragon 888 Plus Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 36
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 Plus 31
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 Plus 50
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Plus Dimensity 9400
CPU 216591 600293
GPU 324286 1194784
Memory 138188 408283
UX 167760 443652
Total score 846825 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 21.2% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3630 vs 2995 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 78.12% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1612 vs 905 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 66.66% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 Plus (5333 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 212.58% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 Plus (2,647 K vs 847 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704
Dimensity 9400 8972

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 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 ARMv8.4-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 10.3 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 905 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 192
  • FLOPS 1853 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 3200 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 MediaTek NPU 890
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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 X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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