MediaTek Helio G81 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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MediaTek Helio G81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G81 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 G81 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.0912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 2000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G81

262145

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G81

91

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +250%

319

MediaTek Helio G81

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2000 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

-

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G52 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 530

950 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

-

Execution units

1

24

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.0912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

13.41 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

2K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

2K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Aug 2024

Announced

Nov 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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