The flagship chipsets for 2025 have arrived – the Snapdragon 8 Elite by Qualcomm and the Dimensity 9400 from MediaTek. Even though most phones running on these chips will see daylight in 2025, we have two phones employing the most powerful SoCs – the Realme GT7 Pro with the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the vivo X200 Pro with the Dimensity 9400.
Historically, Qualcomm’s chips have outperformed MediaTek’s, but lately the Taiwanese company is catching up. The latest Dimensity runs an octa-core CPU with 1x 3.63 GHz Cortex-X925 & 3x 3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 4x 2.4 GHz Cortex-A720 cores and uses an…