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MediaTek MT6572 vs Mediatek MT8121 vs Mediatek MT6582

MediaTek MT6572

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The dual-core Mediatek MT6572 is an entry-level ARM SoC found in a number of Android smartphones and tablets. It contains two Cortex-A7 CPU cores and an ARM Mali-400 graphics card. The CPU cores are typically clocked at 1.2 GHz and the GPU core at 500 MHz. Furthermore, an LPDDR2 memory controller, a 2G/3G (HSPA+) radio, 720p video decoder, WLAN, Bluetooth and GPS modules are integrated onto the chip. 

Performance

As the Cortex A7 architecture is slightly slower per clock than the older Cortex-A9 or Krait cores, the CPU performance is approximately on the same level as a Samsung Exynos 4210 or similar. The ARM Mali-400 GPU is only an entry-level graphics card unsuited for demanding Android 3D games.

Power Consumption

Due to the power-efficient Cortex-A7 cores and the 28 nm manufacturing process, the power consumption of the Mediatek MT6572 is low enough to be used in smaller smartphones.

Mediatek MT8121

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The Mediatek MT8121 is a low-cost ARM SoC (System on a Chip) mainly used in tablets. It is manufactured in 28 nm and integrates a quad-core Cortex-A7 processor and a PowerVR SGX 544 GPU. The CPU cores are typically clocked at 1.3 GHz while the GPU is clocked at 156 MHz.

Performance

Since the Cortex-A7 architecture is somewhat slower than a Krait or Cortex-A9 design at the same clock speeds, the performance of the MT8121 is just below Nvidia's Tegra 3 or the Samsung Exynos 4412. The PowerVR SGX 544 is also just a low-cost solution not designed for ultra-high resolution displays or very demanding games.

Features

In addition to the processor and GPU, the SoC integrates a decoder for 1080p video, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 as well as GPS, but lacks a 2G/3G/4G radio. Cameras are supported up to a resolution of 13 MP.

Power consumption

Thanks to the energy-efficient A7 cores and 28 nm manufacturing, the power consumption is likely very low and suitable for even smaller tablets.

Mediatek MT6582

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The Mediatek MT6582 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) for low-cost tablets and smartphones. It is manufactured in 28 nm and offers a quad-core Cortex-A7 processor as well as an ARM Mali-400 MP2 GPU clocked at 500 MHz (according to Wikipedia the main difference to the MT6582M that is clocked at 416 MHz). Furthermore, the chip supports dual SIM, UMTS and HSPA+, WiFi, FM, Bluetooth and GPS. 

The CPU performance of the MT6582 is similar to other Cortex-A7 SoCs clocked at the same frequency. Depending on the benchmark, the CPU power is roughly comparable with the Nvidia Tegra 3 and sufficient for everyday applications such as browsing. The GPU will handle only simple Android games in moderate resolutions.

ModelMediaTek MT6572Mediatek MT8121Mediatek MT6582
Series Mediatek Mediatek Mediatek
CodenameCortex-A7Cortex-A7Cortex-A7
Series: Mediatek Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65921.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81271.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6589T1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT83891.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81251.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT83211.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81211.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65821.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6582M1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6580M1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65891.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
MediaTek MT6572 « 1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65921.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81271.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6589T1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT83891.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81251.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT83211.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT8121 « 1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65821.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6582M1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6580M1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65891.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
MediaTek MT65721.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65921.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81271.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6589T1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT83891.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81251.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT83211.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT81211.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6582 « 1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6582M1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT6580M1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
Mediatek MT65891.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A7
MediaTek MT65721.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A7
Clock1200 MHz1300 MHz1300 MHz
L1 Cache128 KB128 KB
L2 Cache1 MB1 MB512 KB
Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 44 / 4
Technology28 nm28 nm28 nm
FeaturesHSPA+, TD-SCDMA, Wi-Fi, FM, Bluetooth, GPS, LPDDR2 Memory ControllerWi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPSMali-400 MP2 @ 500 MHz, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM
iGPUARM Mali-400 MPPowerVR SGX544 (156 MHz)ARM Mali-400 MP2 (500 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.mediatek.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 2946     avg: 3647     median: 3765 (3%)     max: 4134 Points
8296 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 MT6572 +
min: 2937     avg: 3692     median: 4000 (3%)     max: 4138 Points
197%
1 MT6582 +
min: 5536     avg: 7724     median: 7861 (6%)     max: 8383 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
4320 Points (4%)
8982 Points (8%)
min: 7473     avg: 8449     median: 8628 (7%)     max: 9037 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 473     avg: 550     median: 575 (1%)     max: 586 Points
min: 1125     avg: 1141     median: 1140.5 (2%)     max: 1156 Points
min: 891     avg: 1145     median: 1169.5 (2%)     max: 1200 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 254     avg: 304.2     median: 314 (6%)     max: 325 Points
351 Points (7%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 MT6582 +
1191 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 MT6582 +
364 Points (5%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
247 Points (2%)
351 Points (3%)
min: 371     avg: 375     median: 375 (3%)     max: 379 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
628 Points (6%)
836 Points (8%)
min: 962     avg: 992     median: 992 (9%)     max: 1022 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
840 Points (2%)
1975 Points (4%)
min: 2105     avg: 2122     median: 2121.5 (4%)     max: 2138 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
487 Points (1%)
1156 Points (2%)
min: 1249     avg: 1251     median: 1251 (3%)     max: 1253 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
614 Points (2%)
1298 Points (3%)
min: 1403     avg: 1416     median: 1416 (4%)     max: 1429 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 73.5     avg: 103.8     median: 88.4 (3%)     max: 149.4 MFLOPS
min: 221.9     avg: 247     median: 247 (8%)     max: 272 MFLOPS
min: 110     avg: 215.7     median: 230 (8%)     max: 289.8 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 45.96     avg: 70.2     median: 59.3 (6%)     max: 105.3 MFLOPS
min: 114.2     avg: 114.6     median: 114.6 (11%)     max: 115 MFLOPS
min: 52     avg: 87.8     median: 88.9 (9%)     max: 116 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 18280     avg: 21475     median: 21475 (25%)     max: 24670 ms
16115 ms (19%)
min: 14999     avg: 17878     median: 15823 (19%)     max: 28996 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 1430     avg: 1679     median: 1723 (19%)     max: 1841 ms
min: 1452     avg: 1453     median: 1453 (16%)     max: 1454 ms
min: 1361     avg: 1655     median: 1578.5 (17%)     max: 2149 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
1769 ms (17%)
1464 ms (14%)
min: 832     avg: 1517     median: 1606 (15%)     max: 1939 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 1317     avg: 1588     median: 1587.5 (1%)     max: 1858 Points
2085 Points (2%)
min: 894     avg: 2044     median: 2105 (2%)     max: 2452 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
595 Points (16%)
696 Points (19%)
min: 634     avg: 699     median: 713 (19%)     max: 740 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
100%
1 MT6572 +
644 Points (14%)
188%
1 MT6582 +
min: 1110     avg: 1201     median: 1210 (27%)     max: 1273 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
100%
1 MT6572 +
1326 Points (18%)
128%
1 MT6582 +
min: 1528     avg: 1743     median: 1691 (22%)     max: 2102 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
2894 points (7%)
min: 8256     avg: 8492     median: 8492 (20%)     max: 8728 points
min: 4838     avg: 6502     median: 5781 (13%)     max: 9537 points
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
min: 9434     avg: 10647     median: 10919 (25%)     max: 11317 Points
min: 16946     avg: 17314     median: 17314 (40%)     max: 17682 Points
min: 17286     avg: 17314     median: 17307 (40%)     max: 17349 Points
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
100%
1 MT6572 +
12567 Points (13%)
152%
1 MT6582 +
min: 18063     avg: 19220     median: 19113 (19%)     max: 20838 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
1 MT6582 +
23643 Points (8%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
144 Iter./s (4%)
min: 358     avg: 367     median: 367 (11%)     max: 376 Iter./s
min: 299     avg: 344.3     median: 358 (11%)     max: 371 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
2600 Iter./s (9%)
min: 6678     avg: 6881     median: 6881 (23%)     max: 7084 Iter./s
min: 6523     avg: 6867     median: 6948.5 (23%)     max: 7045 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 2924     avg: 3680     median: 3679.5 (0%)     max: 4435 Points
min: 9544     avg: 9761     median: 9761 (1%)     max: 9978 Points
min: 9174     avg: 9761     median: 9807 (1%)     max: 10230 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
1 MT6572 +
1077 Points (5%)
229%
1 MT6582 +
min: 1910     avg: 2425     median: 2468.5 (12%)     max: 2852 Points

Average Benchmarks MediaTek MT6572 → 100% n=21

Average Benchmarks Mediatek MT8121 → 189% n=21

Average Benchmarks Mediatek MT6582 → 185% n=21

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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