MediaTek Helio X20 vs Samsung Exynos 850

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 850 . 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 0.0394 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 2000MHz)

Samsung Exynos 850 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 20nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 5 years late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20 +153%

99

Samsung Exynos 850

39

MediaTek Helio X20

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Samsung Exynos 850

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2100 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

10

Cores

8

20 nm

Process

8 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP1

780 MHz

GPU frequency

820 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

24

4

Max size

8

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0394 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

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 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

2520 x 1080

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 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

Info

May 2015

Announced

May 2020

Mid range

Class

Low end

MT6797

Model number

S5E3830

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Samsung Exynos 850

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