MediaTek Helio X30 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Helio X30

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +16%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio X30 +39%

1115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X30

217

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +53%

334

MediaTek Helio X30

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2600 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

10

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

10 nm

Process

14 nm

3

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

GPU name

Adreno 530

850 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

4

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

27.81 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

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Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 10

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2017

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MT6799

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Helio X30

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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