Samsung Exynos 7870 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 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

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

MediaTek Helio X30 +95%

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

MediaTek Helio X30 +125%

1115

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

MediaTek Helio X30 +886%

217

Samsung Exynos 7870

VS

MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1600 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

10

-

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

3 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

700 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

1

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

8

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

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, 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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 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

Feb 2016

Announced

Feb 2017

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6799

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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