Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 on one side and the MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 on the other side, also their respective performances with the benchmarks. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 4 cores, 4 threads, a maximum frequency of 2.3GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 10 cores, 10 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 2.1 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors [if indicated], the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in Geekbench and Cinebench.
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Specification comparison:
Processor Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20Market [main]Smartphone SmartphoneISAARMv7-A [32-bit] ARMv8-A [64-bit]MicroarchitectureKrait 400 Cortex-A72, Cortex-A53FamilySnapdragon 800 Helio XPart number[s], S-Spec
MSM8974AA v3
X20, MT6797
Release dateQ3 2014 Q4 2015Lithography28 nm HPM 20 nm HPMCores4 10Threads4 10Base frequency2.26 GHz 1.4 GHzTurbo frequency- 2.1 GHzEnergy cores
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4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.4 GHz
High performance cores
4x Qualcomm Krait 400 @ 2.26 GHz
2x ARM Cortex-A72 @ 2.1 GHz 4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.85 GHz
Cache memory2 MB 2 MBMax memory capacity2 GB 4 GBMemory types
LPDDR3-933
LPDDR3-800
Max # of memory channels2 2Max memory bandwidth14.93 GB/s 12.8 GB/sTDP6 W 5 WGPU integrated graphicsQualcomm Adreno 330 ARM Mali-T880 MP4GPU execution units1 4GPU shading units128 64GPU clock578 MHz 780 MHzGPU FP32 floating point147.9 GFLOPS 136 GFLOPSSocketSoC SoCDrystone MIPS- 49,640 DMIPSDSPQualcomm Hexagon -Max display resolution
4K@30fps
2560 x 1600
Video decodingH.265, H.264 4K@30fps H.264, H.265 / HEVC 4K2K@30fpsVideo encoding- H.264, H.265 / HEVC 4K2K@30fpsMax camera ISP21 MP 32 MPMax video capture4K@30fps 3840 x 2160Cellular technologiesCDMA, EVDO, GSM, HSPA, LTE GSM, GPRS, Edge, CDMA, CDMA2000, LTEGNSSBeidou, GLONASS, GPS Beidou, Galileo, Glonass, GPSLTE download speedUp to 860 Mbit/s -LTE categoryCat 4 Cat-6ConnectivityUSB 3.0, USB 2.0 -Wi-FiWi-Fi 802.11n/ac Wi-Fi 5 [a/b/g/n/ac]BluetoothBluetooth 4.0 Bluetooth 4.1, A2DPAudio
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I2S, PCM
AnTuTu45,100 81,683[Android] PassMark CPU Mark492 2,076[Android] Geekbench 4 single core973 1,587[Android] Geekbench 4 multi-core2,361 4,728[Android] Geekbench 5 single core148 257[Android] Geekbench 5 multi-core483 813[SGEMM] GFLOPS Performance10.5 GFLOPS 33.56 GFLOPS[Multi-core / watt performance] Performance / watt ratio394 pts / W 946 pts / WAmazon
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The processor MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 has a larger number of cores, the maximum frequency of Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 is greater, that the thermal dissipation power of MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 is less. The MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 was started more recently.
Performance comparison with the benchmarks:
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench.
AnTuTu - Total Score MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20
The difference is 81%.
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AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.
Android PassMark - CPU Mark MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20
The difference in performance is 322%.
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PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.
With Android:
Geekbench 4 - Multi-core & Single Core Score - Android MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20
In single core, the difference is 63%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 100%.
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Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.
With Android:
Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & Single Core Score - Android MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20
In single core, the difference is 74%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 68%.
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Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.
Equivalence:
Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 Intel EquivalentQualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 AMD EquivalentMediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 Intel EquivalentMediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 AMD Equivalent
Smartphones with the processor Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801:
LG G3OnePlus OneSamsung Galaxy S5Sony Xperia Z2Sony Xperia Z3Sony Xperia Z3 CompactXiaomi Mi 4Xiaomi Mi NoteZTE Axon