MediaTek Helio P70 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Helio P70

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio P70 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 P70 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0972 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2100MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio P70 +4%

243318

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio P70

330

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +18%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio P70 +34%

1068

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio P70

97

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +244%

334

MediaTek Helio P70

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2100 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

12 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP3

GPU name

Adreno 530

900 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

3

Execution units

1

18

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.0972 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

13.41 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

NeuroPilot

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2160 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 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

Oct 2018

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6771V/CT

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Helio P70

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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