Snapdragon 636 vs Helio P65
We compared two 8-core processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 (with Adreno 509 graphics) and MediaTek Helio P65 (Arm Mali-G52 2EEMC2). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
- Performs 3.3x better in floating-point computations
- Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Helio
Pros of MediaTek Helio P65
- Announced 1-year and 9-months later
- Shows better (up to 25%) AnTuTu 8 score – 184K vs 147K
- Has a smaller size transistor (12 versus 14 nm)
- 11% higher CPU clock speed (2000 vs 1800 MHz)
- Higher GPU frequency (~14%)
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 62945 | 64553 |
| GPU | 24483 | 29759 |
| Memory | 30326 | 31973 |
| UX | 27466 | 34654 |
| Total score | 147195 | 184679 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 75.3 Mpixels/s | - |
| Face detection | 10.7 images/s | - |
| Speech recognition | 20.45 words/s | - |
| Machine learning | 15.45 images/s | - |
| Camera shooting | 9.79 images/s | - |
| HTML 5 | 1.51 Mnodes/s | - |
| SQLite | 410.2 Krows/s | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 636 and Helio P65CPU
| Architecture | 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73) 4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53) |
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75 6x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Frequency | 1800 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 12 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | 5.5 billion |
| TDP | 9 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 509 | Arm Mali-G52 2EEMC2 |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | 720 MHz | 820 MHz |
| Execution units | 1 | 2 |
| Shading units | 128 | 32 |
| FLOPS | 184 Gigaflops | 56.4 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12.1 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1333 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | - | 13.41 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 680 | NeuroPilot |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2340 x 1080 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 24MP, 2x 16MP | 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 1K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 1080p at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X12 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | October 2017 | June 2019 |
| Class | Mid range | Mid range |
| Model number | SDM636 | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 official site | MediaTek Helio P65 official site |
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