Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Helio G37

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Helio G37

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio G37 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2300MHz)

MediaTek Helio G37 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +45%

233076

MediaTek Helio G37

160199

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +89%

391

MediaTek Helio G37

206

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Helio G37 +14%

915

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +676%

334

MediaTek Helio G37

43

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

MediaTek Helio G37

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

2.2 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

PowerVR GE8320

653 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0435 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2400 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 50MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jun 2020

Flagship

Class

Low end

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6765H

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Helio G37

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