Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs MediaTek Helio X20

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 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 636 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1843 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 20nm)

Released 2 years and 5 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (12.8GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +85%

184

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

14 nm

Process

20 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

720 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

May 2015

Mid range

Class

Mid range

SDM636

Model number

MT6797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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