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MediaTek Dimensity 8550

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MediaTek Dimensity 8500

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of MediaTek Dimensity 8550 and MediaTek Dimensity 8500 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

MediaTek Dimensity 8550

Newer Launch Date: May 2026 (May 2026 vs January 2026)

MediaTek Dimensity 8500

Higher Frequency: 3400 MHz (Up to 3.4GHz vs 3400 MHz)

Basic

MediaTek

Label Name

MediaTek

May 2026

Launch Date

January 2026

SmartPhone Mid range

Platform

SmartPhone Mid range

5MB

System Level Cache (SLC)

Manufacturing

TSMC

MediaTek Dimensity 8550

Model Name

Dimensity 8500

1x Arm Cortex-A725 @ 3.4GHz + 3x Arm Cortex-A725 @ 3.2GHz + 4x Arm Cortex-A725 @ 2.2GHz

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-A725, 3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A725, 4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A725

Octa (8)

Cores

Technology

4 nm

Up to 3.4GHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

GPU Specifications

Arm Mali-G720 MC8

GPU name

Mali-G720 MС8

Shading units

128

OpenCL version

3.2

Vulkan version

1.3

WQHD+

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

Connectivity

5G/4G Dual SIM Dual Active, SA & NSA modes; SA Option2, NSA Option3 / 3a / 3x, NR FR1 TDD+FDD, DSS, 256QAM VoNR / EPS fallback, Smart Network Suite 3.0, Subway Mode 2.0, DSDA 2.0

Cellular specific functions

5G-Adv, 3GPP-R16, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD / TDD, 4G FDD / TDD, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, GSM

Cellular technologies

FR1 LB DL 4x4 MIMO, 3CC up to 220MHz

Downlink functions

Up to 5.17Gbps

Download speed

R16 UL Enhancement, MediaTek UltraSave 3.0+

Modem power saving technologies

256QAM FR1 UL 2CC, FDD UL TxD

Uplink functions

2T2R

Wi-Fi antenna

4G FDD / TDD, 4G-CA

4G support

5G-Adv, Sub-6GHz (FR1), SA / NSA, 5G-CA

5G support

Yes

Bluetooth 5.4

Bluetooth

5.4

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

Wi-Fi

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

GPS L1CA+L5+L1C, BeiDou B1I+B1C+B2a, Glonass L1OF, Galileo E1+E5a, QZSS L1CA+L5, NavIC L5

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

9600Mbps

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4ch

Memory Bus

4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

1MB + 3x 512KB + 4x 256KB

L2 Cache

6MB

L3 cache

Audio codecs

- AAC LC - FLAC - HE-AACv1 - HE-AACv2 - MP3

320MP; 3x 32MP @ 30FPS

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP, 3x 32MP

UFS 4 + MCQ

Storage type

UFS 4 + MCQ

4K60 (3840 x 2160)

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Encode: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC); Decode: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), VP-9, AV1

Video codecs

- H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP9

4K @ 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Up to 144Hz

Display refresh rate

Dual screen support (dual DSI)

Dual display support

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

LLM Booster, Google Gemini Nano V3 support, Diffusion Transformer support, NeuroPilot hardware compression, mixed-precision INT4 quantization, speculative decoding support

AI features

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880