HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 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

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 3 years and 3 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +423%

518

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2600 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

20 nm

6.9

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

720 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

10

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

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)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 200 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

Aug 2018

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6797

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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