MediaTek Helio P20 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Helio P20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P20 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio P20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio P20

186

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +110%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio P20

798

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio P20

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +485%

334

MediaTek Helio P20

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2300 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 530

900 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

256

6

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

12.8 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

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 5 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6757

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Helio P20

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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