Mediatek Dimensity 8400 vs Samsung Exynos 2500
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In this comparison, we take a closer look at two SoCs, MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Samsung Exynos 2500, based on their benchmarks and specifications. The MediaTek Dimensity 8400 comes with an octa-core CPU paired with a Mali-G720 MP7 GPU GPU, while the Samsung Exynos 2500 comes with a deca-core CPU and the Samsung Xclipse 950 GPU.
Key Advantages
Top Reasons to Choose the Samsung Exynos 2500
- Better multitasking with 10 cores compared to 8
- Geekbench 6 shows 54% faster single-core and 43% faster multi-core performance
- More advanced 3 nm process vs 4nm
- 13% higher memory bandwidth (76.8 GB/s vs 68.2 GB/s)
- 33% higher AnTuTu score (2.15M vs 1.62M)
- Released 6 months later - (June 2025 vs December 2024)
- 2% Faster CPU clock speed (3300 MHz vs 3250 MHz)
- 13% higher memory frequency (4800 MHz vs 4266 MHz)
- 76% higher compute power (4.09 TFLOPS vs 2.32 TFLOPS)
Overall Score
| CPU Score |
66
|
81
|
| GPU Score |
76
|
85
|
| Memory Score |
90
|
95
|
| Total Score |
77
|
87
|
AnTuTu 11 Score
Samsung Exynos 2500 +33%
MediaTek Dimensity 8400
1,618,446
Samsung Exynos 2500
2,154,825
| CPU | 390,962 | 514,532 |
| GPU | 599,470 | 946,368 |
| MEM | 317,410 | 383,044 |
| UX | 310,604 | 310,881 |
| TOTAL | 1,618,446 | 2,154,825 |
Geekbench 6 Score
Single-Core
Samsung Exynos 2500 +54%
MediaTek Dimensity 8400
1,534
Samsung Exynos 2500
2,359
Multi-Core
Samsung Exynos 2500 +43%
MediaTek Dimensity 8400
5,707
Samsung Exynos 2500
8,141
| Single-Core | 1,534 | 2,359 |
| Multi-Core | 5,707 | 8,141 |
General
| Chipset | MediaTek Dimensity 8400 | Samsung Exynos 2500 |
| Launch Date | December 2024 | June 2025 |
| Class | Upper Mid-range | Flagship |
| Model Number | MT6899 | S5E9955 |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
CPU
| Core Configuration | 1x 3.25GHz - Cortex-A725 3x 3.0GHz - Cortex-A725 4x 2.1GHz - Cortex-A725 |
1x 3.3GHz - Cortex X925 2x 2.74GHz - Cortex A725 5x 2.36GHz - Cortex A725 2x 1.8GHz - Cortex A520 |
| CPU Cores | 8 | 10 |
| Max Clock Speed | 3250 MHz | 3300 MHz |
| Architecture | ARMv9.2-A | ARMv9.2-A |
| L2 Cache | 1MB | 11 MB |
| L3 Cache | 6MB | 16 MB |
| Process Node | 4nm | 3 nm |
| TDP | 7 Watts | 6 Watts |
GPU
| GPU Name | Mali-G720 MP7 GPU | Samsung Xclipse 950 |
| GPU Frequency | 1300 MHz | 999 MHz |
| Neural Processing Unit | MediaTek NPU 880 | 59 TOPS NPU |
| Shading Units | 128 | 64 |
| Compute Performance | 2.32 TFLOPS | 4.09 TFLOPS |
| Ray Tracing Support | Yes | Yes, Hardware-accelerated |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| OpenCL | 3.2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
Memory & Storage
| Memory Type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X |
| Frequency | 4266 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16-bit | 4x 16-bit |
| Max Bandwidth | 68.2 GB/s | 76.8 GB/s |
| Max RAM Size | 24GB | 24 GB |
| Storage Type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 4.0 |
ISP & Multimedia
| Max Camera | 320MP | 320MP |
| Video Capture | 4K @ 60FPS | 8K @ 30FPS HDR 4K @ 120FPS |
| Video Playback | 4K @ 60FPS | 8K @ 30FPS |
| Video Codecs | H.264 H.265 AV1 VP9 |
H.264 H.265 HEVC VP9 AV1 |
| Audio Codecs | AAC LC FLAC HE-AACv1 HE-AACv2 MP3 |
AAC LC FLAC HE-AACv1 HE-AACv2 MP3 |
| Display Support | 2960 x 1440 | 4K |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Exynos 5400 5G |
| 4G Support | Yes | Yes |
| 5G Support | Yes (SA & NSA) | Yes |
| Download Speed | Up to 5.17 Gbps | Up to 9.64 Gbps |
| Upload Speed | - | Up to 2.55 Gbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6E | Wi-Fi 7 |
| Bluetooth Version | 6.0 | 5.4 |
| Navigation | NavIC, GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS |