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MediaTek Helio G81 vs Apple A10 Fusion

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G81 vs. 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G81 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Apple A10 Fusion Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0912 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2340MHz vs 2000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
MediaTek Helio G81
262145
Apple A10 Fusion +32%
347439
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Helio G81
91
Apple A10 Fusion +173%
249

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
2000 MHz
Frequency
2340 MHz
8
Cores
4
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
L2 cache
3 MB
-
L3 cache
0
12 nm
Process
16 nm
-
Transistor count
3.3
-
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G52 MP2
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
950 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
-
Execution units
6
24
Shading units
32
8
Max size
4
0.0912 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
12

Memory

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
1800 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
13.41 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
2520 x 1080
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
2K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9645M

Connectivity

-
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
-
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 100 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.4
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2024
Announced
Sep 2016
Low end
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1W24
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