Quick/Comparisons
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's Adreno 840 graphics deliver significantly stronger gaming performance, outscoring the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus's Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12 by 31 points.
Both the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 offer excellent battery life, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 edging out the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus by just 1 point.
Since AI performance scores are unavailable for both products, we cannot determine a clear winner in this use case.
81 | CPU Performance | 99 |
65 | Gaming Performance | 96 |
91 | Battery life |
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| TSMC | Manufacturer | TSMC |
| 4 nanometers | Process Node | 3 nanometers |
| 8 | CPU Cores | 8 |
| Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12 | GPU Model | Adreno 840 |
| MediaTek NPU 790 | NPU Performance | Hexagon |
| 2347116 | Apple A19 | 3932243 |
| 676003 | CPU | 1143736 |
| 788281 | GPU | 1439012 |
| 368524 | Memory | 409747 |
| 514308 | UX | 939748 |
| 2347116 | Total score | 3932243 |
| 2256 | Single-Core Score | 3607 |
| 7541 | Multi-Core Score | 10732 |
| 300.2 MB/sec | Asset compression | 421.8 MB/sec |
| 204.3 pages/sec | HTML 5 Browser | 238 pages/sec |
| 254.8 Mpixels/sec | PDF Renderer | 286.6 Mpixels/sec |
| 161.7 images/sec | Image detection | 330.6 images/sec |
| 239.3 Mpixels/sec | HDR | 308.4 Mpixels/sec |
| 25.8 images/sec | Background blur | 40.7 images/sec |
| 69 images/sec | Photo processing | 98.7 images/sec |
| 7.77 Mpixels/sec | Ray tracing | 14.1 Mpixels/sec |
| 34 tests | Samples | 41 tests |
| 15274 | Compute Score (GPU) | 27343 |
| 26.8 images/sec | Background blur | 51.9 images/sec |
| 12 images/sec | Face detection | 24.9 images/sec |
| 0.69 Gpixels/sec | Horizon detection | 0.72 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.81 Gpixels/sec | Edge detection | 1 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.84 Gpixels/sec | Gaussian blur | 2.04 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.23 Gpixels/sec | Feature matching | 0.36 Gpixels/sec |
| 30.5 Gpixels/sec | Stereo matching | 115.4 Gpixels/sec |
| 3146.5 FPS | Particle physics | 4390.2 FPS |
| OpenCL | API | Vulkan |
| 24 tests | Samples | 26 tests |
| 1831 | 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | 2736 |
| 1831 | Score | 2736 |
| 91% | Stability | 78% |
| 14 FPS | Graphics test | 20 FPS |
| 7559 | 3DMark Solar Bay | 12201 |
| 7559 | Score | 12201 |
| 29 FPS | Graphics test | 46 FPS |
| 32 FPS | Section 1 | 53 FPS |
| 29 FPS | Section 2 | 46 FPS |
| 24 FPS | Section 3 | 39 FPS |
| 1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4 3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720 | Architecture | 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime 6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance |
| 8 | Cores | 8 |
| 3400 MHz | Frequency | 4610 MHz |
| ARMv9.2-A | Instruction set | ARMv9.2-A |
| — | L1 cache | 192 KB |
| 1 MB | L2 cache | 12 MB |
| 4 nanometers | Process | 3 nanometers |
| TSMC | Manufacturing | TSMC |
| LPDDR5T | Memory type | LPDDR5X |
| 4800 MHz | Memory frequency | 5300 MHz |
| 4x 16 Bit | Bus | 4x 16 Bit |
| 76.8 Gb/s | Max bandwidth | 84.8 Gb/s |
| 24 GB | Max size | 24 GB |
| MediaTek T830 | Modem | Snapdragon X85 |
| LTE Cat. 24 | 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 |
| Yes | 5G support | Yes |
| Up to 7900 Mbps | Download speed | Up to 12500 Mbps |
| Up to 4200 Mbps | Upload speed | Up to 3700 Mbps |
| 7 | Wi-Fi | 7 |
| 5.4 | Bluetooth | 6 |
| GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
| UFS 4.0 | Storage type | UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 |
| 1x 320MP | Max camera resolution | 1x 320MP |
| 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS | Video capture | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS | Video playback | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| - H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP9 | Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP8 - VP9 |
| - AAC LC - FLAC - HE-AACv1 - HE-AACv2 - MP3 | Audio codecs | - AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
| MediaTek NPU 790 | Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon |
| May 2024 | Announced | September 2025 |
| Flagship | Class | Flagship |
| MT6989, MT6989W/TCZA | Model number | SM8850-AC |
| Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12 | GPU name | Adreno 840 |
| 5th gen | Architecture | Adreno 800 |
| 1300 MHz | GPU frequency | 1200 MHz |
| 12 | Pipelines | 3 |
| 128 | Shading units | 512 |
| 1536 | Total shaders | 1536 |
| 3993.6 Gigaflops | FLOPS | 3686.4 Gigaflops |