MediaTek Helio P18 vs Samsung Exynos 7872. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Mediatek Helio Samsung Exynos
• CPU group
  MediaTek Helio P10 Samsung Exynos 7872/7884/7885/7904
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 2

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 6 / 6
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  8x Cortex-A53 2x Cortex-A73
• B-Core
  -- 4x Cortex-A53
• Overclocking
  No No

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
  ARM Mali-T860 MP2 ARM Mali-G71 MP1
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz 0.95 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.80 GHz 0.95 GHz
• Execution units
  2 1
• Shader
  32 16
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  Midgard 4 Bifrost 1
• Direct X
  11 11
• Technology
  28nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 7872 and MediaTek Helio P18. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-933 LPDDR3-933
• Max. Memory
  4 GB
• Memory channels
  1 0
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Helio P18 and Samsung Exynos 7872 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Helio P18 and MediaTek Helio P18, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A53 Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2018
• Part Number
  MT6755S --