Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

MediaTek Helio X30

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

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (27.81GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

MediaTek Helio X30 +46%

217

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

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

2500 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

4

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

28 nm

Process

10 nm

1

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

578 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

32

4

Max size

8

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Feb 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8974 v3

Model number

MT6799

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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