MediaTek Helio X20 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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MediaTek Helio X20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . 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)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 20nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +3313%

3379

MediaTek Helio X20

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2100 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

8 MB

20 nm

Process

4 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 735

780 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 6500 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

Mar 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6797

Model number

SM8635

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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