We compared the 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 [Adreno 530] with the newer 8-core MediaTek Helio P90 [PowerVR GM9446] SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
- Performs 2.1x better in floating-point computations
- Supports 114% higher memory bandwidth [29.8 against 13.91 GB/s]
Pros of MediaTek Helio P90
- Announced 3-years and 1-month later
- Has 4 more cores
- Higher GPU frequency [~55%]
- Has a smaller size transistor [12 versus 14 nm]
- Shows better [up to 16%] AnTuTu 10 score – 298K vs 257K
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 10
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
CPU 86352 96536 GPU 41466 47447 Memory 62160 67396 UX 69980 89489 Total score 257548 298274
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GeekBench 6
The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Asset compression - 75.4 MB/sec HTML 5 Browser - 44.1 pages/sec PDF Renderer - 44.8 Mpixels/sec Image detection - 25.4 images/sec HDR - 40.8 Mpixels/sec Background blur - 3.55 images/sec Photo processing - 10.3 images/sec Ray tracing - 2.48 Mpixels/sec
3DMark
A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan [Metal]
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Graphics test 4 FPS - Score 792 -
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 820 and Helio P90
CPU
Architecture 2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo 2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex A75 6x 2 GHz – Cortex A55 Cores 4 8 Frequency 2150 MHz 2200 MHz Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A L1 cache 64 KB - L2 cache 1 MB - Process 14 nanometers 12 nanometers Transistor count 2 billion - TDP 11 W 5 W Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 530 PowerVR GM9446 Architecture Adreno 500 PowerVR Series9XE [Rogue] GPU frequency 624 MHz 970 MHz Execution units 1 10 Shading units 256 8 Total shaders 256 80 FLOPS 319.4 Gigaflops 155.2 Gigaflops Vulkan version 1.0 1.3 OpenCL version 2.0 2.0 DirectX version 11 -
Memory
Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR4X Memory frequency 1866 MHz 1866 MHz Bus 2x 32 Bit 2x 16 Bit Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 13.91 Gbit/s Max size 8 GB 8 GB
Multimedia [ISP]
Neural processor [NPU] Hexagon 680 MediaTek APU 2.0 Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080 Max camera resolution 1x 28MP, 2x 13MP 1x 64MP Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS Video codecs H.264, H.265 H.264, H.265 Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
Modem X12 - 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 13 5G support No No Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps Wi-Fi 5 5 Bluetooth 4.1 5.0 Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Galileo
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