Samsung Exynos 7870 vs MediaTek Dimensity 820

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Samsung Exynos 7870 MediaTek Dimensity 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 8W)

MediaTek Dimensity 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.416 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +234%

489218

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +392%

847

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +403%

2494

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +1790%

416

Samsung Exynos 7870

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MediaTek Dimensity 820

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1600 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

3 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP5

700 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.416 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

May 2020

Low end

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6875

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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