MediaTek Helio X20 vs HiSilicon Kirin 985

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 . 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)

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2580MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +558%

652

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

2100 MHz

Frequency

2580 MHz

10

Cores

8

20 nm

Process

7 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP8

780 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

8

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

12

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.652 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

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

AI

No

NPU

是

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

是

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1277 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 177 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2015

Announced

Apr 2020

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6797

Model number

Hi6290

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

-

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