MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Samsung Exynos 7872

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MediaTek Dimensity 820

Samsung Exynos 7872

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs. 6 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 7872 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.416 TFLOPS vs 0.0384 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17.07GB/s vs 3.7GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Samsung Exynos 7872 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +994%

416

Samsung Exynos 7872

38

MediaTek Dimensity 820

VS

Samsung Exynos 7872

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP1

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1200 MHz

5

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

16

Max size

4

0.416 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0384 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

3.7 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2020

Announced

Jan 2018

Mid range

Class

Low end

MT6875

Model number

S5E7872

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7872

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