MediaTek Helio X20 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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MediaTek Helio X20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (12.8GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 1800MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1843 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 20nm)

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +85%

184

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

2100 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

20 nm

Process

14 nm

3

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 509

780 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1843 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.3 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 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

Oct 2017

Mid range

Class

Mid range

MT6797

Model number

SDM636

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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