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MediaTek Dimensity 7500

vs

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of MediaTek Dimensity 7500 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

MediaTek Dimensity 7500

Higher Technology: 4 nm (4 nm vs 5 nm)
Newer Launch Date: May 2026 (May 2026 vs December 2020)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Higher Frequency: 2840 MHz (Up to 2.6GHz vs 2840 MHz)

Basic

MediaTek

Label Name

Qualcomm

May 2026

Launch Date

December 2020

SmartPhone Mid range

Platform

SmartPhone Flagship

MediaTek Dimensity 7500

Model Name

SM8350

4x Arm C1 Pro @ 2.6GHz + 4x Arm C1 Nano @ 2.0GHz

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Octa (8)

Cores

4 nm

Technology

5 nm

Up to 2.6GHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

GPU Specifications

Arm Mali-G625 MC2

GPU name

Adreno 660

GPU frequency

840 MHz

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

Shading units

512

Execution units

OpenCL version

2.0

Vulkan version

1.1

Primary up to 1344 x 2800; secondary up to 1300 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

DirectX version

Connectivity

SA & NSA modes; SA Option2, NSA Option3 / 3a / 3x, NR TDD and FDD bands, DSS, NR DL 3CC 220MHz bandwidth, 4x4 MIMO, 256QAM NR UL 2CC, R16 UL Enhancement, 2x2 MIMO, 256QAM VoNR / EPS fallback, Smart Network Suite 3.0

Cellular specific functions

2G-5G multi-mode, 5G/4G CA, 5G/4G FDD / TDD, CDMA2000 1x/EVDO Rev. A (SRLTE), EDGE, GSM, TD-SCDMA

Cellular technologies

NR DL 3CC 220MHz bandwidth, 4x4 MIMO

Downlink functions

5.2Gbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+

Modem power saving technologies

256QAM NR UL 2CC, R16 UL Enhancement, 2x2 MIMO

Uplink functions

Up to 2T2R

Wi-Fi antenna

4G FDD / TDD, 4G-CA

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

5G FDD / TDD, SA / NSA, 5G-CA

5G support

Bluetooth 5.4, Bluetooth Hybrid Coexistence, Bluetooth Long Range, Xtra Range 3.0

Bluetooth

5.2

Wi-Fi 6E (a/b/g/n/ac/ax)

Wi-Fi

GPS, BeiDou, Glonass, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

Up to 6400Mbps

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

Memory Bus

4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

L2 Cache

1 MB

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

UFS 3.1 2-lane

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

4K30 (3840 x 2160) - 10 bit

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Encode: H.264, HEVC; Decode: H.264, HEVC, VP-9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

4K HDR

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

Primary up to 144Hz; secondary up to 120Hz

Display refresh rate

Secondary display up to 1300 x 1200 @ 120Hz

Dual display support

TDP

10 W

Armv9.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

Generative AI support, global AI ecosystem support, on-device speech recognition, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, contextual replies, notification summarization

AI features

MediaTek NPU 850

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780