MediaTek Helio X20 vs Apple A18 Pro

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MediaTek Helio X20 Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 20nm)

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Apple A18 Pro +2149%

2227

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2100 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

10

Cores

6

20 nm

Process

3 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

780 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

4

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11.2

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5T

933 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

-

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

May 2015

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6797

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

-

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