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MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6

Higher Frequency: 5000 MHz (4.55 GHz vs 5000 MHz)
Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2026 vs September 2026)

Basic

MediaTek

Label Name

Qualcomm

September 2026

Launch Date

September 2026

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

SmartPhone Flagship

10 MB

System Level Cache (SLC)

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

MT6995

Model Name

Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6

2x 4.55 GHz Arm C2-Ultra + 3x 4.35 GHz Arm C2-Pro + 3x 3.10 GHz Arm C2-Pro

Architecture

2x Oryon Prime @ 5.0 GHz + 6x Oryon Performance @ 4.0 GHz

Cores

2 nm

Technology

2 nm

4.55 GHz

Frequency

5000 MHz

GPU Specifications

Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX

GPU name

Adreno 850

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

FLOPS

4454.4 GFLOPS

Shading units

1536

Execution units

OpenCL version

3.0

Vulkan version

1.4

WQHD+

Max display resolution

4K+

DirectX version

12.1

Connectivity

5G/4G Triple SIM Triple Active, Dual Data, SA and NSA, SA Option 2, NSA Option 3/3a/3x, NR FR1 TDD+FDD, DSS, 256QAM, VoNR, EPS fallback

Cellular specific functions

8 carriers mmWave, 2x2 MIMO mmWave, 4x6 MIMO sub-6 GHz, 6Rx, NB-NTN, NR-NTN, Global 5G Multi-SIM, Turbo DSDA

3GPP Release 17, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD/TDD, 4G FDD/TDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, EDGE, GSM

Cellular technologies

5G Advanced, 5G mmWave, sub-6 GHz, 5G SA, 5G NSA, standalone mmWave, NR-DC, FDD, TDD, LTE

Sub-6 DL 5CC 350 MHz, Release 17 Enhancement, low-band DL 4x4 MIMO

Downlink functions

6xCA, 500 MHz downlink bandwidth, 1024 QAM sub-6 GHz

>7.4 Gbps

Download speed

14.8 Gbps

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 2.0, Release 17 Power Saving Enhancement

Modem power saving technologies

Qualcomm 5G PowerSave

Sub-6 UL 2CC 200 MHz, Release 17 Enhancement, FDD UL 2x2 MIMO, PC2

Uplink functions

Switched uplink, supplemental uplink, 4-layer carrier aggregation, UL MIMO, Smart Transmit Plus

Wi-Fi antenna

4x4 Wi-Fi

Yes

4G support

LTE

Yes, 5G-Advanced

5G support

5G NR, 5G Advanced, mmWave, sub-6 GHz

Bluetooth 6.2, dual Bluetooth engine, up to 12 Mbps

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 6.0

Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Triple Band Triple Concurrency, up to 7.3 Gbps

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 8, Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6

GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR6 / LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X / LPDDR6

10667 MT/s

Memory frequency

5300 MHz

Memory Bus

4x 24-bit

Miscellaneous

8.5 MB (2x 2 MB + 3x 1 MB + 3x 512 KB)

L2 Cache

16 MB

L3 cache

Audio codecs

aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless

200 MP

Max camera resolution

320 MP

UFS 5.0

Storage type

UFS 5.0

8K at 60 FPS; 4K at 120 FPS with EIS; 4K at 240 FPS slow-motion; 4K at 60 FPS HDR

Video capture

8K @ 60 FPS, 4K @ 240 FPS, 1080p @ 960 FPS

VVC (H.266), HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), VP9, AV1, MV-HEVC

Video codecs

H.266, H.265, VP9, AV1

8K at 60 FPS, 10-bit

Video playback

180 Hz

Display refresh rate

4K+ @ 120 Hz, QHD+ @ 240 Hz

Armv9.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.4-A

Native AI Architecture, Dimensity Agentic AI Engine, AI Compute Fusion, Neural Graphics Architecture, AI Imaging Fusion Architecture, on-device MoE inference, edge-training LLM, KV-cache compression

AI features

Agentic AI, Qualcomm Personal Scribe, on-device learning, low-power personal context

MediaTek NPU 1090 + Super Efficient NPU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon