Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. MediaTek 9400 benchmark showdown

Ro, 01 November 2024

The flagship chipsets for 2025 have arrived - the Snapdragon 8 Elite by Qualcomm and the Dimensity 9400 from MediaTek. Even though most phones running on these chips will see daylight in 2025, we have two phones employing the most powerful SoCs - the Realme GT7 Pro with the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the vivo X200 Pro with the Dimensity 9400.

Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. MediaTek 9400 benchmark showdown

Historically, Qualcomm's chips have outperformed MediaTek's, but lately the Taiwanese company is catching up. The latest Dimensity runs an octa-core CPU with 1x 3.63 GHz Cortex-X925 & 3x 3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 4x 2.4 GHz Cortex-A720 cores and uses an Immortalis-G925 GPU.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite, on the other hand, boasts in-house-designed Oryon cores - 2x 4.20 GHz Oryon V2 Phoenix L + 6x 3.53 GHz Oryon V2 Phoenix M. These are significantly different CPU clusters compared to the Dimensity and are clocked higher, too. The Adreno 830 GPU also gets some attention and promises a considerable leap over the last generation.

But how do these two chips stack against each other in terms of performance? Here are the benchmarks

GeekBench 6

  • Multi-core
  • Single-core
Realme GT7 Pro Realme GT7 Pro
9509
SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite 512GB, 16GB RAM
vivo X200 Pro vivo X200 Pro
8632
Dimensity 9400 1TB, 16GB RAM
Realme GT7 Pro Realme GT7 Pro
3127
SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite 512GB, 16GB RAM
vivo X200 Pro vivo X200 Pro
2711
Dimensity 9400 1TB, 16GB RAM

AnTuTu 10

vivo X200 Pro vivo X200 Pro
2923567
Dimensity 9400 1TB, 16GB RAM 1260 x 2800 px
Realme GT7 Pro Realme GT7 Pro
2746604
SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite 512GB, 16GB RAM 1264 x 2780 px

3DMark

  • Wild Life Extreme (2160p)
  • Solar Bay (1440p)
vivo X200 Pro vivo X200 Pro
6853
Dimensity 9400 Immortalis-G925 1260 x 2800 px
Realme GT7 Pro Realme GT7 Pro
6360
SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite Adreno 830 1264 x 2780 px
vivo X200 Pro vivo X200 Pro
11923
Dimensity 9400 Immortalis-G925 1260 x 2800 px
Realme GT7 Pro Realme GT7 Pro
11101
SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite Adreno 830 1264 x 2780 px

As expected, the Snapdragon 8 Elite shows greater CPU performance in both single-core and multi-core workloads. In Geekbench 6, the SD8 Elite outperforms the Dimensity 9400 by 10% in the multi-core scenario and by 15% in the single-threaded scenario.

In combined workloads like AnTuTu 10, though, the Dimensity 9400 edges Qualcomm's silicon by 6%. we have to point out that for all practical intents and purposes, these kind of differences performance make little difference.

Snapdragon 8 Elite vs. MediaTek 9400 benchmark showdown

In the GPU-heavy 3DMark benchmarks, the Dimensity 9400 edges out the SD8 Elite by 7-8%, depending on the benchmark, which in this case are the Wild Life Extreme and Solar Bay.

It's quite a surprise to see the Immortalis GPU beating the Adreno, even by a small margin.

Keep in mind that these are results from pre-market units, so once we get more phones running these SoCs, we might see a change in ranking. Still, we doubt we will see drastic disparities.

Either way, we see this as an absolute win because now users can rest assured that if they choose a Dimensity 9400-powered smartphone, they won't be sacrificing raw performance. Both chipsets are powerful enough to run anything you throw at them.


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Reader comments

  • Naval
  • 03 Dec 2024
  • tA$

The earliest 8 Elite phone launches are closer to the iPhone 16 series launch date, than the earliest 8 Gen 3 phones. Not to mention, next year Android flagship are going to be compared to the iPhone 16 too.

  • Anonymous
  • 22 Nov 2024
  • 7v0

Whydo you think Apple develops 11months slower?

Mediatek 9400 also seems to be the most battery efficient. So Snapdragon seems to get their ass kicked. Good for competition and therefore good for us consumers

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