Apple A11 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Apple A11 Bionic

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 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 A11 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 20nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A11 Bionic +313%

409

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Apple A11 Bionic

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral

Architecture

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

2390 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

6

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

10 nm

Process

20 nm

4.3

Transistor count

3

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A11 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1066 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

3

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.4093 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.1

OpenCL version

1.2

12

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2436 x 1125

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W72

Model number

MT6797

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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