Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8350
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 scores 2.3x higher than the MediaTek Dimensity 8350 on AnTuTu v11 (37.89 Lakhs vs 16.42 Lakhs) and is 2.6x faster in Geekbench single-core and 2.4x in multi-core. None of the key differences favour the MediaTek Dimensity 8350.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8350: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads
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38% higher peak CPU clock
4.61 GHz vs 3.35 GHz
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv9-A
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2x larger L3 cache
8 MB vs 4 MB
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Smaller process node
3 nm vs 4 nm
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71% more GPU compute power
3686 GFLOPS vs 2150.4 GFLOPS
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24% faster RAM
5300 MHz vs 4266 MHz
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Newer storage standard
UFS 4.1 vs UFS 4.0
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2.3x higher AnTuTu v11 score
37.89 Lakhs vs 16.42 Lakhs
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2.4x faster in Geekbench multi-core
10,983 vs 4,566
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2.6x faster in Geekbench single-core
3,690 vs 1,428
AnTuTu and Geekbench scores
AnTuTu v11 Total
2.3x fasterGeekbench Single-Core
2.6x fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
2.4x fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- September 2025
- November 2024
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Upper Mid-range
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- MediaTek
- Model Number
- SM8850
- MT6897
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 8
- Core Configuration
- 2 x 4.61 GHz (3rd-gen Oryon cores)
6 x 3.63 GHz (3rd-gen Oryon cores) - 1x 3.35 GHz - Cortex-A715
3x 3.2 GHz - Cortex-A715
4x 2.2 GHz - Cortex-A510 - Max Frequency
- 4610 MHz
- 3350 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9.2-A
- ARMv9-A
- Process Node
- 3 nm
- 4 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 12 MB
- -
- L3 Cache
- 8 MB
- 4 MB
- TDP
- -
- 6 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 840
- Mali-G615 MP6
- GPU Frequency
- 1200 MHz
- 1400 MHz
- Shading Units
- 512
- 128
- FLOPS
- 3686 GFLOPS
- 2150.4 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- Yes
- Yes
- NPU
- Hexagon NPU
- MediaTek APU 780
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
- Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5X
- LPDDR5X
- RAM Frequency
- 5300 MHz
- 4266 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x16-bit
- 4x 16-bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 84.8 GB/s
- 68.2 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 24 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 4.1
- UFS 4.0
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 320 MP
- 320MP
- Video Capture
- 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 60FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- 4K
- WQHD+
- Video Playback
- 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 60FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1
- H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
- Audio Codecs
- AAC, LDAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC LC, FLAC, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, MP3
Connectivity
- Modem
- Snapdragon X85
- MediaTek T800
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 12.5 Gbps
- 7.9 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 3.7 Gbps
- 4.2 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6E
- Bluetooth
- 6.0
- 5.4
- Navigation
- NavIC, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS
- NAVIC, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS
Links
Benchmark results
Every AnTuTu and Geekbench result for both chips. Green marks the higher score.
AnTuTu v11
- Total
- 37,89,020
- 16,42,027
- CPU
- 10,80,698
- 4,73,434
- GPU
- 14,29,751
- 4,88,428
- Memory
- 4,06,941
- 2,65,639
- UX
- 8,71,630
- 4,13,526
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 3,690
- 1,428
- Multi-Core
- 10,983
- 4,566
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+26 pointsCPU Score
+39 pointsGPU Score
+31 pointsMemory Score
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