1x nanometer battle: P20 can surpass Xiaolong 625?

September 23, 2021

[IT168 News] Recently, many mobile phones using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 have been introduced in the market. These mobile phones are located in the price range of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan and have good performance and endurance performance. Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 adopts Samsung's 14nm manufacturing process, which can reduce the heat dissipation of the CPU's power consumption, thereby enhancing the performance of the mobile phone's battery life. As an old rival of Qualcomm, MediaTek also has products for Xiaolong's 625 counterpart. This will soon release the listed Helio P20. The Helio P20 uses TSMC's 16nm manufacturing process. It has eight A53 cores and is positioned in the mid-end market. It has a number of new technologies and is a strong opponent of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625. Then, can MediaTek's Helio P20 be able to pour 625 dragons?


â–² 1x nano-scale battle: P20 can surpass Xiaolong 625?

With the continuous development of semiconductor technology, most of the mobile phone CPUs on the market today have adopted a 20nm manufacturing process, and even more advanced 14nm and 16nm manufacturing processes. The CPU of 14nm craft is mainly produced by Samsung, and the current mobile phone CPU on the market using 14nm manufacturing process is mainly Qualcomm Xiaolong 820/821, Xiaolong 625/626 and Samsung's own 8890, these several products. The 16nm manufacturing process is currently in the hands of TSMC, and the newly released Helio P20, which is also a Taiwanese company, is using the 16nm manufacturing process.


â–² Helio P20 main low power

The first cell phone adopting MediaTek Helio P20 processor will be the soon-to-be-released Charm Blue x. It is believed that Charm Blue x is positioned in the market between 1000 and 1,500 yuan, and many Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processors are currently available in the market. The same positioning as mobile phones. Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 and MediaTek Helio P20's biggest selling point is the use of 14nm/16nm manufacturing process, resulting in better power consumption and endurance performance. Since it wants to grab the market with Qualcomm Xiaolong 625, what is the specification of the Helio P20 of MediaTek?

Helio P20 Specifications:


â–²Helio P0/P20 specifications comparison

Looking at some of the Helio P20's product specifications, we can see that the Helio P20 not only uses a 16nm manufacturing process, but there are quite a few improvements in the Helio P10 from the previous generation. The Helio P10 uses a 28nm manufacturing process, while the P20 is upgraded to 16nm. The process upgrade not only allows the CPU's power consumption to decrease, but also contributes to the CPU's frequency increase. It can be seen that both the P10 and P20 CPUs use the 8-core A53 architecture. The CPU core is the same, but the CPU frequency is increased from 2.0 GHz in the P10 to 2.3 GHz in the P20. The frequency increase in the CPU directly brings better performance. The GPU also uses the Mali-T860 MP2. The GPU core frequency of the Helio P20 has been increased to 900MHz. The same dual-core GPU architecture only improves the GPU frequency, which is really limited for the improvement of 3D performance, and may also be considered by MediaTek in terms of power consumption. The GPU performs a major upgrade.


â–² Helio P20 has a higher core frequency

In terms of memory support, the Helio P10 and P20 also support a single-channel LPDDR3 933MHz, which supports up to 4GB of memory. This is also the memory specification currently supported by most midrange handsets. The Helio P20 adds support for dual-channel LPDDR4 1600MHz, a 70% increase in bandwidth compared to single-channel LPDDR3, and also supports 6GB of LPDDR4 for memory capacity, supporting larger memory.


â–² Helio P20 native support dual camera

Another additional upgrade is the camera support. The Helio P20 supports up to 24 million pixel camera, using dual ISP, compared to P10's 21 million pixel camera support has improved a lot. More importantly, the Helio P20 provides dual camera support. From the Helio P20's hardware specifications, you can see that the P20 supports mainstream color + black-and-white dual-camera solutions, and uses the ISP's own ISP, eliminating the need for a plug-in ISP, allowing handset manufacturers to manufacture Dual camera phones cost less.

The network Helio P20 also supports full Netcom, supports FDD and TDD LTE networks, supports LTE Cat6, with a high speed 4G network of 300Mbps, and supports dual card dual standby. Wifi has added support for 802.11ac, providing a faster wifi network, and Bluetooth, FM, GPS, Glonass, Beidou satellite navigation are all available. There is CPU video encoding and decoding added to the support of 4K video, using P20 processor mobile phone can play 4K video smoothly.

The Helio P20 has not only been upgraded in terms of manufacturing process, but also increased the core frequency of the CPU, brought the support of LPDDR4, as well as dual camera support, more powerful video encoder and decoder, as a mid-range CPU, the specification has been Pretty good, can you compete with Snapdragon 625? Below we also compare the two CPU parameters.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 / MediaTek Helio P20 Contrast:


â–²Comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 625/Telecom Helio P20

Qualcomm Xiaolong 625 uses a 14nm manufacturing process, and MediaTek Helio P20 uses a 16nm manufacturing process. Both CPUs have reached the highest production process currently in production. Both CPUs use the public version of the A53 architecture. They all have eight A53 cores. The Xiaolong 625's core frequency is 2.0GHz and the Helio P20's core frequency is 2.3GHz. The same architecture has the same number of cores and higher frequency brings better performance. performance. For memory support, the Helio P20 supports LPDDR4 memory and supports up to 6GB of memory when using LPDDR4 memory, so the Helio P20 is superior to both memory specifications and memory capacity support.


â–² Qualcomm Xiaolong adopts 14nm manufacturing process

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 uses Adreno 506 GPU. There is not much information about this GPU, but you can see Adreno 506 performance is quite good through previous tests. While the Helio P20 uses the Mail-T880 MP2, the GPU's core frequency has been increased to 900MHz, but still with the dual-core architecture, the performance improvement brought by the increase in frequency will not be obvious.


â–² Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 selling point

Camera support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 and MediaTek Helio P20 also support 24 million pixel camera, also has a dual ISP, but the Helio P20 has increased dual camera support, support for color + black and white dual-camera solution, you can achieve without external ISP Dual cameras, this is also a big advantage of the Helio P20.

In terms of network, Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 supports LTE Cat7, with uplink up to 150Mbps and downlink down to 300Mbps. Compared with Helio P20 LTE Cat6, the uplink speed is faster. Of course, this requires network support from the telecom operators. Others such as screen support, video decoding and Bluetooth wifi, etc., the difference between the two CPUs is not great.

to sum up:

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 and the MediaTek Helio P20 are manufactured using the most advanced manufacturing processes available. They have excellent performance in terms of power consumption and heat generation. The Helio P20 has a higher CPU frequency and already supports higher specification memory. This is for Helio. The P20's performance improvement has a lot of help. The Helio P20 also supports native dual camera solutions, which can greatly reduce the cost of dual camera. Through the comparison of parameters, we can affirm that the performance of the Helio P20 is better than that of the Xiaolong 625 in theory. However, the positioning of the two CPUs is the same, so the gap will not be too great.

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