MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 leads the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 by 49% on AnTuTu v11 (35.20 Lakhs vs 23.68 Lakhs) and is 61% faster in Geekbench single-core and 55% in multi-core. None of the key differences favour the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3: key differences
Where the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 leads
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24% higher peak CPU clock
4.21 GHz vs 3.4 GHz
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.3-A vs ARMv9.2-A
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33% larger L3 cache
16 MB vs 12 MB
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Smaller process node
3 nm vs TSMC 4 nm
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47% more GPU compute power
5271.5 GFLOPS vs 3584 GFLOPS
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11% faster RAM
5333 MHz vs 4800 MHz
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Newer storage standard
UFS 4.1 vs UFS 4.0
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49% higher AnTuTu v11 score
35.20 Lakhs vs 23.68 Lakhs
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55% faster in Geekbench multi-core
10,280 vs 6,626
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61% faster in Geekbench single-core
3,488 vs 2,162
AnTuTu and Geekbench scores
AnTuTu v11 Total
+49% fasterGeekbench Single-Core
+61% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+55% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- September 2025
- October 2023
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Flagship
- Manufacturer
- MediaTek
- Qualcomm
- Model Number
- MT6993
- SM8650-AB, SM8650-AC
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 8
- Core Configuration
- 1x 4.21 GHz - C1-Ultra
3x 3.50 GHz - C1-Premium
4x 2.70 GHz - C1-Pro - 1x 3.3 GHz - Cortex X4
3x 3.15 GHz - Cortex A720
2x 2.96 GHz - Cortex A720
2x 2.27 GHz - Cortex A520 - Max Frequency
- 4210 MHz
- 3400 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9.3-A
- ARMv9.2-A
- Process Node
- 3 nm
- TSMC 4 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 2 MB
- 1 MB
- L3 Cache
- 16 MB
- 12 MB
- TDP
- -
- 8 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12
- Adreno 750
- GPU Frequency
- 1716 MHz
- 903 MHz - 1000 MHz
- Shading Units
- 128
- 1536
- FLOPS
- 5271.5 GFLOPS
- 3584 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- Yes
- Yes
- NPU
- MediaTek NPU 990
- Hexagon NPU
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.4, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0
- Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5X
- LPDDR5X
- RAM Frequency
- 5333 MHz
- 4800 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x16-bit
- 4x16-bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 85.3 GB/s
- 76.8 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 24 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 4.1
- UFS 4.0
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 320 MP
- 200 MP
- Video Capture
- 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS, 720p at 960FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- 4K
- 4K
- Video Playback
- 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- Video Codecs
- HEVC, AVC, VP9, AV1
- H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
- Audio Codecs
- AAC LC, FLAC, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, and MP3
- AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
- Modem
- -
- Snapdragon X75 5G
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 10.7 Gbps
- 10 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 3.5 Gbps
- Up to 3.5 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 7
- Bluetooth
- 6.0
- 5.4
- Navigation
- NavIC, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NavIC
Links
Benchmark results
Every AnTuTu and Geekbench result for both chips. Green marks the higher score.
AnTuTu v11
- Total
- 35,19,907
- 23,68,420
- CPU
- 1,08,387
- 6,52,232
- GPU
- 13,61,440
- 8,24,065
- Memory
- 3,58,001
- 3,30,935
- UX
- 7,82,079
- 5,61,188
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 3,488
- 2,162
- Multi-Core
- 10,280
- 6,626
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+12 pointsCPU Score
+21 pointsGPU Score
+12 pointsMemory Score
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