Early Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 benchmarks show incredible performance

Early leaks about the Dimensity 9300 claimed that it will be 10% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The two chips certainly traded blows, but they are old news now – attention is already shifting towards the upcoming Dimensity 9400 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.

A poster on a Vietnamese forum has discovered benchmark results from both chips from Geekbench 6.1 and AnTuTu 10. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 keeps the edge in single-core performance, but loses in the multi-core Geekbench test (this was the case with the 2023 chips too).

Early Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 vs. Dimensity 9400 benchmarks

Moving over to AnTuTu, the MediaTek has 10% higher overall score. The breakdown shows 12% higher CPU score and 7% higher GPU score.

Compared to the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300, the new chips are showing massive performance upgrades – assuming these results are legitimate, of course. The results are on the order of 50% higher, which is dubious for a generational upgrade.

The results might be true, though, Digital Chat Station hints that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will hit 4.0GHz on its prime core, whereas the 8 Gen 3 tops out at 3.4GHz. The Apple A17 Pro should get close at 3.78GHz.

Source 1 (in Vietnamese) | Via 1 | Via 2 | Source 2 (in Chinese)

Reader comments

  • Enthusiast

Thanks to fierce competition between Qualcomm and Media Tek, loyalist and customers of both chips manufactures can be grateful knowing they bring out the best in each other, such as snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs dimensity 9300+ both on the 4nm node process. ...

  • V

The irony in that is the name "Ultra" that is a rebrand of the same chip G99 similar to G88 a rebrand of G85 and so on

  • V

Hey i have G88 and G99 is close to 6080 in specs except for download upload and ram so is not bad If 6080 had something to cool the heat inside like G88 G99 it could not be bad