MediaTek MT6737 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

MediaTek MT6737

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6737 vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek MT6737 Advantages

Lower TDP (7W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.0208 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek MT6737

141

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +129%

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek MT6737

600

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +37%

827

FP32 (float)

MediaTek MT6737

20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +1495%

319

MediaTek MT6737

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

1300 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

4

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

28 nm

Process

14 nm

1

Transistor count

2

7 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T720 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 530

650 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

2

Execution units

1

8

Shading units

256

3

Max size

8

0.0208 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

1.1

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

640 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

6.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1280 x 720

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

MT6169

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 4

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2016

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6737

Model number

MSM8996

MediaTek MT6737

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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