Apple A13 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio X20
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A13 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2100MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)
Released 4 years and 4 months late
MediaTek Helio X20 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+535%
0.629 TFLOPS
MediaTek Helio X20
0.099 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
2650 MHz
Frequency
2100 MHz
6
Cores
10
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
8 MB
L2 cache
-
-
-
-
7 nm
Process
20 nm
8.5
Transistor count
3
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T880 MP4
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
780 MHz
4
Execution units
4
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0998 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
1.2
12.1
DirectX version
11.2
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
12.8 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
-
Max camera resolution
1x 25MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
-
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
May 2015
Flagship
Class
Mid range
-
Model number
MT6797
