Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

MediaTek Helio X30

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Released 8 months late

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (27.81GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

MediaTek Helio X30 +13%

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

MediaTek Helio X30 +2%

1115

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

MediaTek Helio X30 +17%

217

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

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

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

720 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

32

8

Max size

8

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Feb 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

MT6799

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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