Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra

Based on benchmark performance, MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra achieves a higher total AnTuTu score of 2,136,906 (tested by 91Mobiles), compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5's 992,266 (tested by 91Mobiles), making MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra the more powerful processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5

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Summary

Release Date

May, 2026

Mar, 2026

CPU

Octa core

(2.6 GHz, Quad Core + 2 GHz, Quad core)

Octa core

(3.4 GHz, Single Core + 3.2 GHz, Tri core + 2.2 GHz, Quad core)

Process Node

4 nm

GPU

Adreno

Mali-G720 MP8

Memory Type

LPDDR5

LPDDR5X

AnTuTu Score

992,266

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2,155,265

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Geekbench Score

1,100/3,495

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1,725/6,657

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Benchmark

AnTuTu (The higher, the better)

AnTuTu measures CPU, GPU, memory and overall performance in different scenarios

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 992,266

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MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra 2,136,906

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CPU

370,618

618,996

GPU

116,248

648,976

Memory

256,860

390,041

248,540

478,893

Geekbench (The higher, the better)

The Geekbench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance

Geekbench Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 1,100

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MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra 1,725

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Geekbench Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 3,495

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MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra 6,860

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General

SoC Brand

Qualcomm

MediaTek

Title

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5

MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra

Model No

SM6850

N/A

Manufacturing

TSMC

CPU

Total Cores

Octa core

CPU

Octa core (2.6 GHz, Quad Core, Cortex A78 + 2 GHz, Quad core, Cortex A55)

Octa core (3.4 GHz, Single Core, Cortex A725 + 3.2 GHz, Tri core, Cortex A725 + 2.2 GHz, Quad core, Cortex A725)

Architecture (The higher, the better)

64 bit

Process Node

4 nm

Instruction Set

ARMv9-A

ARMv9.2-A

L2 Cache

N/A

3.5 MB

L3 Cache

N/A

6 MB

GPU

Adreno

Mali-G720 MP8

GPU Clock speed

N/A

1.3 GHz

Pipelines

N/A

Shading Units

N/A

128

Total Shaders

N/A

1024

FLOPS

N/A	2662.4 Gigaflops

Vulkan Version

1.3

OpenCL Version

3.0 FP

OpenGL Version

ES 3.2

N/A

DirectX Version

N/A

12.0

AI

NPU

Hexagon

MediaTek NPU

Image Processing Engine

Spectra ISP

N/A

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5

LPDDR5X

Memory Speed

3.2 GHz

4.8 GHz

Bus

2x16 Bit

4x16 Bit

Memory Max bandwidth

25.6 Gb/s

76.8 Gb/s

Memory Max size

16 GB

24 GB

Storage Type

UFS 3.1

UFS 4.1

Camera

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Name

Spectra

N/A

ISP Bit Depth

12-bit

N/A

Max Camera Sensor Supported

200 MP

320 MP

Max Video Capture Resolution

UHD @ 30 FPS

UHD @ 60 FPS

Slow Motion Video Capture

HD @ 240 FPS

N/A

Video Capture Formats

MP4

N/A

Display

Max On-Device Display Resolution

FHD+ @ 144 Hz

QHD+

Max Refresh Rate

144 Hz

HDR Support

Yes

N/A

Multimedia

Video Playback Resolution

UHD @ 30 FPS

UHD @ 60 FPS

Video Codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Audio Codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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

Connectivity

Modem Name

Qualcomm 5G Modem-RF System

N/A

5G Support

Yes

Peak Download Speed

Up to 2800 Mbps

Up to 5170 Mbps

Wi-Fi Version

Wi-Fi Standard

a, ac, ax, b, be, g, n, n 5GHz

a, ac, ax, ax 6GHz, b, g, n

Bluetooth Version

6.0

5.4

Navigation

BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, GPS, NavIC, QZSS

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