MediaTek Helio X20 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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MediaTek Helio X20

Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . 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)

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.487 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 20nm)

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Samsung Exynos 1280 +391%

487

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2100 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

20 nm

Process

5 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

780 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

4

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

48

4

Max size

8

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

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

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2015

Announced

Mar 2022

Mid range

Class

Mid range

MT6797

Model number

S5E8825

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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