MediaTek Helio P20 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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MediaTek Helio P20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P20 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio P20 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 2 years late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.148 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2300MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio P20

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 +159%

148

MediaTek Helio P20

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2300 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

28 nm

4

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 330

900 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

6

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K 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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 5 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Feb 2014

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6757

Model number

MSM8974 v3

MediaTek Helio P20

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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