Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9300
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Dimensity 9300 SoCs, developed by Qualcomm and Mediatek respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has -38.46% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 9300 (800 vs 1300 MHz).
Pros of Dimensity 9300
- Dimensity 9300 has 8.33 % higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 ( 3250 vs 3000 MHz).
- Dimensity 9300 has 50.00 % higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 ( 4800 vs 3200 MHz).
- Dimensity 9300 has 98.23 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 ( 2055 K vs 1037 K).
- Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 .
- Dimensity 9300 Support 50.00 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 ( 76.8 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 249768 | 485064 |
| GPU | 448381 | 899463 |
| Memory | 172528 | 357691 |
| UX | 166045 | 312866 |
| Total score | 1036722 | 2055084 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 88% | - |
| Graphics test | 54 FPS | 116 FPS |
| Score | 9041 | 19522 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2,3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710 4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510 |
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4 3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1800MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3000MHz | 3250MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv9.2-A |
| L2 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | - |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 18 MB |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | 22.7 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | - | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 730 | Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12 |
| Architecture | Adreno 700 | Valhall 5th gen |
| GPU frequency | 800 MHz | 1300 MHz |
| Pipelines | 3 | 12 |
| Shading units | 768 | 192 |
| Total shaders | 1536 | 384 |
| FLOPS | - | 5990.4 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| OpenCL version | 2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | MediaTek APU 790 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDRLPDDR5T |
| Memory frequency | 3200 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 76.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | UFS 4.0 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2960 x 1440 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP | 1x 320MP |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS |
| 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 |
Connectivity
| Modem | Snapdragon X65 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 10240 Mbps | Up to 10000 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | Up to 2560 Mbps | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3072 Mbps | Up to 7000 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | Up to 316 Mbps | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 7 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.4 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | December 2021 | November 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8450 | - |
| Official page | Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 official site | Dimensity 9300 official site |