Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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 801 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.148 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2100MHz)

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (20nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 +49%

148

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

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

2500 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

4

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

28 nm

Process

20 nm

1

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

578 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 21MP

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8974 v3

Model number

MT6797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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