MediaTek Helio X30 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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MediaTek Helio X30

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +196%

996

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio X30

1115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +130%

2569

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X30

217

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +377%

1036

MediaTek Helio X30

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

7 nm

3

Transistor count

6.7

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

GPU name

Adreno 640

850 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

4

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

384

8

Max size

16

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

27.81 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 10

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Feb 2017

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MT6799

Model number

SM8150-AC

MediaTek Helio X30

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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