MediaTek Helio X20 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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MediaTek Helio X20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0998 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (12.8GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 20nm)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20 +253%

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2100 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

10

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

20 nm

Process

12 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 504

780 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

May 2015

Announced

Jun 2018

Mid range

Class

Low end

MT6797

Model number

SDM429

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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