Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Helio X30

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +16%

391

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Helio X30 +39%

1115

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +53%

334

MediaTek Helio X30

217

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

4

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

653 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

32

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

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, 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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Feb 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6799

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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