MediaTek Helio A20 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Mediatek Helio Intel Xeon E5
• CPU group
  MediaTek Helio A20/A25 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 6
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.50 GHz 2.40 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  PowerVR GE8300 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.55 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  1
• Max. displays
  1
• Technology
  20 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2017

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 and MediaTek Helio A20. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-933LPDDR4X-1600 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  3 GB
• Memory channels
  1 4
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Helio A20 and Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  90 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Helio A20 and MediaTek Helio A20, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  -- 25.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Broadwell E
• Technology
  12 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  N/A LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q1/2016