MediaTek Helio X30 vs Samsung Exynos 980

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MediaTek Helio X30

Samsung Exynos 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . 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 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 10nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Samsung Exynos 980 +158%

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio X30

1115

Samsung Exynos 980 +67%

1867

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X30

217

Samsung Exynos 980 +20%

262

MediaTek Helio X30

VS

Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

10 nm

Process

8 nm

3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

850 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

4

Execution units

5

32

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

27.81 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, 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

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 10

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2017

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MT6799

Model number

S5E9630

MediaTek Helio X30

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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