MediaTek Helio P20 vs Apple A18
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P20 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A18 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2300MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Helio P20
57
Apple A18
+3038%
1789
CPU
4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
2300 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
1 MB
L2 cache
-
16 nm
Process
3 nm
4
Transistor count
-
5 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T880 MP2
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
900 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
2
Execution units
5
16
Shading units
128
6
Max size
8
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
-
1.2
OpenCL version
-
11.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
1600 MHz
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
12.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s
AI
-
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
1920 x 1080
Max display resolution
-
1x 24MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
-
Modem
Snapdragon X75
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 5 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
7
4.2
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Feb 2016
Announced
Sep 2024
Mid range
Class
Flagship
MT6757
Model number
-
