MediaTek Helio G36 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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MediaTek Helio G36

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G36 vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G36 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 11W)

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G36

154460

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +68%

260148

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G36

229

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +41%

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G36 +2%

848

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G36

43

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +641%

319

MediaTek Helio G36

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

2200 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

2.2 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8320

GPU name

Adreno 530

680 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

4

Execution units

1

8

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.0435 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

13.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2400 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 50MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Feb 2022

Announced

Nov 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996

MediaTek Helio G36

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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