Samsung Exynos 9609 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 9609 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

Samsung Exynos 9609 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 20nm)

Released 4 years late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0998 TFLOPS vs 0.0918 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (12.8GB/s vs 11.9GB/s)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 9609

91

MediaTek Helio X20 +8%

99

Samsung Exynos 9609

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

10 nm

Process

20 nm

3

Transistor count

3

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP3

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

850 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

3

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0918 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

11.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2019

Announced

May 2015

Mid range

Class

Mid range

S5E9609

Model number

MT6797

Samsung Exynos 9609

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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