MediaTek Helio X20 vs Samsung Exynos 990

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . 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 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Samsung Exynos 990 +1037%

1126

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Samsung Exynos 990

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2100 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

10

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

20 nm

Process

7 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP11

780 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

4

Execution units

11

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 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 108MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K 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

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2015

Announced

Oct 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6797

Model number

S5E9830

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

Samsung Exynos 990

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