Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek MT6737

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6737 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0208 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Released 7 months late

MediaTek MT6737 Advantages

Lower TDP (7W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +177%

391

MediaTek MT6737

141

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +32%

797

MediaTek MT6737

600

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +1570%

334

MediaTek MT6737

20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek MT6737

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

1300 MHz

4

Cores

4

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

11 W

TDP

7 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-T720 MP2

653 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

8

Max size

3

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0208 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

1.1

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

640 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1280 x 720

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

MT6169

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 4

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jan 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6737

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek MT6737

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