Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 5 years and 8 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +1285%

1372

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3200 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

20 nm

10.3

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

670 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

2

Execution units

4

512

Shading units

16

Max size

4

1.3721 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 698

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X55

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

SM8250-AC

Model number

MT6797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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