Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
vs
MediaTek Dimensity 6500
vs
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
and
MediaTek Dimensity 6500
mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Technology: 4 nm (4 nm vs 6 nm)
- Higher Frequency: 3000 MHz (3000 MHz vs Up to 2.6GHz)
- Newer Launch Date: May 2026 (March 2024 vs May 2026)
Basic
Qualcomm
Label Name
MediaTek
March 2024
Launch Date
May 2026
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
SM8650-AB
Model Name
MediaTek Dimensity 6500
1x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2.0 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2.0 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x Arm Cortex-A76 @ 2.6GHz + 6x Arm Cortex-A55 @ 2.0GHz
8
Cores
Octa (8)
4 nm
Technology
6 nm
3000 MHz
Frequency
Up to 2.6GHz
GPU Specifications
Adreno 735
GPU name
Arm Mali-G57 MC2
750 MHz
GPU frequency
Up to 1.1GHz
3.7308 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
786
Shading units
-
2
Execution units
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
1.3
Vulkan version
-
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
12.1
DirectX version
-
Connectivity
-
Cellular specific functions
SA & NSA modes; SA Option2, NSA Option3 / 3a / 3x, NR TDD Band, NR FDD Band, DSS, NR DL 2CC, 140 MHz bandwidth, 256QAM NR UL 2CC, 256QAM VoNR, Dual VoNR, Dual 5G SIM, EPS fallback
-
Cellular technologies
2G / 3G / 4G / 5G Multi-Mode, 4G Carrier Aggregation (CA), 5G Carrier Aggregation (CA), EDGE, 4G FDD / TDD, 5G FDD / TDD, GSM, TD-SCDMA
-
Downlink functions
NR DL 2CC, 140 MHz bandwidth, 8-layer DL MIMO
Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed
3.3Gbps
-
Modem power saving technologies
MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+
-
Uplink functions
256QAM NR UL 2CC
-
Wi-Fi antenna
1T1R
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
4G FDD / TDD, 4G-CA
Yes
5G support
5G FDD / TDD, SA / NSA, 5G-CA
5.4
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.2 + Long Range
7
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 5 (a/b/g/n/ac)
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS L1CA+L5, BeiDou B1I+B2a, Glonass L1OF, Galileo E1+E5a, QZSS L1CA+L5, NavIC
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4x
4200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
-
Miscellaneous
8 MB
L3 cache
-
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
-
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
Native 108MP; 16MP + 16MP
UFS 4.0
Storage type
UFS 2.2
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
-
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
-
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
-
-
Display refresh rate
Up to 120Hz
6 W
TDP
-
ARMv9-A
Instruction set
-
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
1638
+94%
Dimensity 6500
845
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
3991
+86%
Dimensity 6500
2143
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