MediaTek Helio X20 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Apple A15 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2100MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 20nm)
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Helio X20
99
Apple A15 Bionic
+1629%
1712
CPU
2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
2100 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
10
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
-
L2 cache
12 MB
20 nm
Process
5 nm
3
Transistor count
15
5 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T880 MP4
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
780 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
4
Execution units
5
16
Shading units
128
4
Max size
6
0.0998 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7126 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
-
1.2
OpenCL version
-
11.2
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
12.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
2560 x 1600
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 25MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
4.1
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
May 2015
Announced
Sep 2021
Mid range
Class
Flagship
MT6797
Model number
APL1W07
