Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 20nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +3313%

3379

MediaTek Helio X20

99

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3000 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

8 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

20 nm

-

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 735

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1100 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

2

Execution units

4

768

Shading units

16

24

Max size

4

3.3792 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 6500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2024

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

SM8635

Model number

MT6797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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