MediaTek Helio G90 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2074 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2050MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G90 +267%

632

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G90 +227%

1619

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G90 +840%

207

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

MediaTek Helio G90

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2050 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP4

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

720 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

16

10

Max size

4

0.2074 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

AI

MediTek APU 2.0

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

MediTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

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

Jul 2019

Announced

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Low end

MT6785V/CD

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio G90

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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