MediaTek MT6737 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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MediaTek MT6737

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6737 vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 9W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.0208 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2450MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek MT6737

141

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +194%

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek MT6737

600

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +153%

1519

FP32 (float)

MediaTek MT6737

20

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +2735%

567

MediaTek MT6737

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

1300 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

28 nm

Process

10 nm

1

Transistor count

3

7 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T720 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 540

650 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

2

Execution units

1

8

Shading units

384

3

Max size

8

0.0208 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

1.1

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

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 682

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1280 x 720

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

MT6169

Modem

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 4

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2016

Announced

Nov 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6737

Model number

MSM8998

MediaTek MT6737

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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