Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Helio G90T

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Helio G90T

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90T . 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 0.2304 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2050MHz)

MediaTek Helio G90T Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Helio G90T +53%

357644

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Helio G90T +66%

652

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Helio G90T +132%

1850

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +45%

334

MediaTek Helio G90T

230

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

MediaTek Helio G90T

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2050 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

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP4

653 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

36

8

Max size

10

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2304 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 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

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jul 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6785V/CC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Helio G90T

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