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Apple A6 vs MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X

Apple A6

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The Apple A6 is a dual-core SoC found in the iPhone 5 with ARM compatible CPU cores. The A6 was developed by Apple and supports the extended ARMv7s instruction set. The clock rate of the CPU is between 800 to 1200 MHz depending on the CPU load. The integrated GPU is a PowerVR SGX543MP3 at 266 MHz.

MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X

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The Mediatek Helio X27 MT6797X is an upper mainstream ARM SoC for smartphones (mainly Android based). It is manufactured in a 20 nm process and is equipped with 10 CPU cores. Two fast Cortex-A72 cores are running at up to 2.6 GHz (performance), four Cortex-A53 cores at up to 2 GHz (balanced) and four Cortex-A53 cores at up to 1.6 GHz (efficiency). All cores support 64-bit and the utilization of three clusters is supposed to improve efficiency according to Mediatek. The two A72 cores are only designed for short "Burst-Performance scenarios" according to Mediatek and are probably not used for sustained workloads. Compared to the similar named MT6797, the MT6797X was introduced later and offers higher clock speeds for CPU and GPU.

The integrated ARM Mali T880 MP4 (according to Wikipedia) GPU is clocked at up to 875 MHz and has four cluster (from 16) from the Midgard (4th Gen) architecture.

The chip also includes an LTE modem (Cat. 6 300/50 Mbps, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, CDMA2000, ...) as well as a WLAN 802.11ac (280 Mbps) modem. GPS/Glonass/BeiDou is supported for location. The integrated video encoder can handle up to 4Kx2K H.265 at 30 fps and HDR. The SoC can also decode H.265, H.264 and VP9 in 4K30. 

Power Consumption

The processor is manufactured in a 20 nm process at TSMC and should have an average power consumption under load.

ModelApple A6MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X
SeriesApple Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20
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Clock1000 MHz2600 MHz
Cores / Threads210 / 10
Technology32 nm
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Features2x Cortex-A72 2.6 GHz (Performance), 4x Cortex-A53 2 GHz (Balance), 4x Cortex-A53 1.6 GHz (Efficiency)
iGPUARM Mali-T880 MP4 ( - 875 MHz)
Manufacturerwww.mediatek.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
8427 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
8496 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 9771     avg: 10915     median: 10713 (9%)     max: 12462 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 1372     avg: 1626     median: 1702 (20%)     max: 1804 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 1547     avg: 1709     median: 1709 (20%)     max: 1871 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 1352     avg: 1632     median: 1690 (17%)     max: 1797 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 3590     avg: 4554     median: 4781.5 (5%)     max: 5064 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 A6 +
940 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
1 A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
1 A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
min: 4261     avg: 7150     median: 7244 (8%)     max: 9851 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 A6 +
935 ms (9%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 5909     avg: 6943     median: 6031.5 (5%)     max: 9798 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
0 Points (0%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
1 MT6797X +
75939 Points (26%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 5405     avg: 6054     median: 6097.5 (19%)     max: 6616 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 23733     avg: 25991     median: 26498.5 (33%)     max: 27232 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 26786     avg: 27756     median: 27779 (9%)     max: 28680 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 44590     avg: 48162     median: 49155 (30%)     max: 49746 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 105872     avg: 107962     median: 107561 (19%)     max: 110854 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
159874 Points (21%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
100%
1 MT6797X +
2807 Points (15%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
100%
1 MT6797X +
2598 Points (6%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 4077     avg: 4427     median: 4467 (29%)     max: 4695 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 4922     avg: 5353     median: 5252 (26%)     max: 5984 Points

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 100% n=4

Average Benchmarks MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X → 241% n=4

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