Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Helio P90

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Helio P90

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio P90 . 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 0.1552 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.91GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2200MHz)

MediaTek Helio P90 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Helio P90 +77%

414755

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Helio P90 +6%

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Helio P90 +72%

1377

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +115%

334

MediaTek Helio P90

155

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

MediaTek Helio P90

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex A75
6x 2 GHz – Cortex A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

PowerVR GM9446

653 MHz

GPU frequency

970 MHz

1

Execution units

10

256

Shading units

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1552 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

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.91 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 2.0

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

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, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6779V/CU

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Helio P90

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