MediaTek Helio X20 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . 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 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 1600MHz)

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 20nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20 +350%

99

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2100 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

10

Cores

8

20 nm

Process

14 nm

3

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

780 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

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

-

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2015

Announced

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Low end

MT6797

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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