MediaTek Helio P20 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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MediaTek Helio P20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P20 vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . 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 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio P20

186

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +435%

996

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio P20

798

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +221%

2569

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio P20

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +1717%

1036

MediaTek Helio P20

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2300 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

6.7

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 640

900 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

384

6

Max size

16

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.1

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 5 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Apr 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6757

Model number

SM8150-AC

MediaTek Helio P20

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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