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MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X vs Amlogic AML8726-MX vs Apple A6x

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.

Amlogic AML8726-MX

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The Amlogic AML8726-M is a cheap SoC (System on a Chip) for Android tablets and smartphones. It integrates two ARM Cortex-A9 cores (max. 1,5 GHz) with SIMD extensions and an ARM Mali-400 graphics card. Furthermore, the chip supports hardware decoding of 1080p videos according to Amlogic.

Apple A6x

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The Apple A6x is a dual-core-SoC (System on a Chip) with ARM compatible CPU cores (ARMv7s instruction set). Both can be clocked at up to 1400 MHz depending on the load. It is used in the iPad 4 and compared to the A6 in the iPhone 5, the A6x offers a faster GPU (PowerVR SGX544MP4).

The CPU-Performance of the A6x is similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T, while the GPU is about as fast as the Adreno 320.

ModelMediaTek Helio X27 MT6797XAmlogic AML8726-MXApple A6x
SeriesMediatek Mediatek Helio 20 Apple
Clock2600 MHz1500 MHz1400 MHz
Cores / Threads10 / 102 / 22
Features2x Cortex-A72 2.6 GHz (Performance), 4x Cortex-A53 2 GHz (Balance), 4x Cortex-A53 1.6 GHz (Efficiency)NEON, VFP, Cortex-A9
iGPUARM Mali-T880 MP4 ( - 875 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.mediatek.comwww.amlogic.com
Series:
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX « 1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+STcores
unknown cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x « 1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+STcores
unknown cores
L2 Cache512 KB
Technology45 nm32 nm

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 MT6797X +
8427 Points (7%)
103%
1 A6x +
8647 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 MT6797X +
8496 Points (7%)
102%
1 A6x +
8627 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 9771     avg: 10915     median: 10713 (9%)     max: 12462 Points
83%
1 A6x +
8850 Points (7%)
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 A6x +
1424 Points (3%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A6x +
781 Points (15%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 267     avg: 268.5     median: 268.5 (2%)     max: 270 Points
377%
1 A6x +
1012 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 958     avg: 963     median: 963 (9%)     max: 968 Points
213%
1 A6x +
2053 Points (19%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 1409     avg: 1451     median: 1450.5 (3%)     max: 1492 Points
156%
1 A6x +
2262 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 825     avg: 840     median: 839.5 (2%)     max: 854 Points
158%
1 A6x +
1330 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 1000     avg: 1021     median: 1020.5 (3%)     max: 1041 Points
173%
1 A6x +
1768 Points (5%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 63.9     avg: 86.6     median: 84.2 (3%)     max: 111.8 MFLOPS
777%
1 A6x +
654 MFLOPS (22%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 50.7     avg: 57.9     median: 52.9 (5%)     max: 70.1 MFLOPS
723%
1 A6x +
382.4 MFLOPS (37%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 MT6797X +
min: 4261     avg: 7150     median: 7244 (8%)     max: 9851 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1243     avg: 1336     median: 1252 (12%)     max: 1513 ms
104%
1 A6x +
895 ms (8%)
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%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 3947     avg: 4055     median: 4055 (9%)     max: 4163 points
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
min: 4082     avg: 4886     median: 4886 (32%)     max: 5690 Points
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%
1 MT6797X +
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 MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X → 0% n=

Average Benchmarks Amlogic AML8726-MX → 0% n=

Average Benchmarks Apple A6x → 0% n=

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)