The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is a flagship-grade mobile processor known for its high-end CPU and powerful Adreno GPU with ray tracing.
It offers excellent gaming capabilities at a more affordable price point. However, MediaTek's Dimensity 8500 Ultra, announced in early 2026, presents strong competition in the same segment.
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The Dimensity 8500 Ultra features an all-big-core CPU design with higher peak speeds, competitive GPU performance, and faster download speeds.
Here's how these two processors stack up.
Benchmark Performance
Benchmark tests were conducted on the POCO F7 (Snapdragon 8s Gen 4) and the POCO X8 Pro (Dimensity 8500 Ultra).
Geekbench: The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 scores 2,047 single-core and 6,620 multi-core, outperforming the Dimensity 8500 Ultra's 1,603 and 6,411.
The single-core lead is 27% due to the more powerful Cortex-X4 core.
AnTuTu v11: Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 achieves 2,326,902 points, while the Dimensity 8500 Ultra scores 2,110,684.
The Snapdragon chip leads in CPU (13% higher) and GPU (23% higher) tests.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test: Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 records a high score of 4,470 and a low score of 3,542, with 79.24% stability.
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The Dimensity 8500 Ultra scores 4,162 high and 3,056 low, with 73.43% stability.
Key Differences
CPU: Both chips have octa-core CPUs with ARMv9.2-A.
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 uses a 1+3+2+2 layout with one Cortex-X4 core and seven Cortex-A720 cores.
The Dimensity 8500 Ultra uses a 1+3+4 layout with all Cortex-A725 cores, peaking at 3.4GHz.
Despite lower peak clock, the Snapdragon's Cortex-X4 core provides better single-core performance.
GPU: The Adreno 825 in the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 offers superior performance and stability over the Mali-G720 MP8 in the Dimensity 8500 Ultra.
Snapdragon Elite Gaming features like Adaptive Performance Engine and Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.0 enhance gaming efficiency.
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The Dimensity chip uses MediaTek HyperEngine for smooth 120 FPS gaming.
NPU: The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 has a Hexagon NPU with 2x larger shared memory and 44% faster AI performance.
It supports LLMs and LVMs on-device. The Dimensity 8500 Ultra features MediaTek NPU 880 with diffusion transformer support and NeuroPilot compression.
Camera: Both ISPs support up to 320MP single camera and 4K/60fps video.
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 offers up to 36MP triple cameras with zero shutter lag and real-time semantic segmentation (250 layers).
The Dimensity 8500 Ultra supports up to 32MP triple cameras.
Connectivity: The Snapdragon X75 5G modem delivers up to 4.2Gbps download, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6.0.
The Dimensity 8500 Ultra has a 5G modem with up to 5.17Gbps download, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.4.
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Overall, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 leads in CPU, GPU, and gaming stability, while the Dimensity 8500 Ultra offers faster download speeds and competitive AI capabilities.
