Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1248 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 20nm)

Released 9 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (12.8GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 2000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 +25%

124

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2000 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

14 nm

Process

20 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

650 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

1

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X9

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

May 2015

Mid range

Class

Mid range

MSM8953

Model number

MT6797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

Related SoC Comparison

1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

2

MediaTek Helio G99 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

4

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus

5

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

6

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1200

7

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

8

MediaTek Helio X20 vs MediaTek Helio G99

9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1