MediaTek Helio X20 vs Samsung Exynos 9820

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 . 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 9W)

Samsung Exynos 9820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.607 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (33.4GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 20nm)

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Samsung Exynos 9820 +513%

607

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Samsung Exynos 9820

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M4
2x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2100 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

10

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

20 nm

Process

8 nm

3

Transistor count

8.5

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

780 MHz

GPU frequency

702 MHz

4

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.607 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

33.4 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2015

Announced

Nov 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6797

Model number

S5E9820

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9820

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