MediaTek Helio X30 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

VS

MediaTek Helio X30

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (27.81GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 12nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X30 +675%

217

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

MediaTek Helio X30

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

10

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

10 nm

Process

12 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

GPU name

Adreno 504

850 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

4

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

27.81 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 10

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Feb 2017

Announced

Jun 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

MT6799

Model number

SDM429

MediaTek Helio X30

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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