MediaTek Helio P30 vs Samsung Exynos 9609. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Mediatek Helio Samsung Exynos
• CPU group
  MediaTek Helio P20/P30 Samsung Exynos 9600
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 3

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 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 4x Cortex-A73
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 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-G71 MP2 ARM Mali-G72 MP3
• GPU frequency
  0.95 GHz 0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.95 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  2 3
• Shader
  32 48
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  Bifrost 1 Bifrost 2
• Direct X
  11 12
• Technology
  16 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q3/2017

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 / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 9609 and MediaTek Helio P30. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1600 LPDDR4X-1600
• Max. Memory
  6 GB
• Memory channels
  2 0
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Helio P30 and Samsung Exynos 9609 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Helio P30 and MediaTek Helio P30, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Architecture
  Cortex-A53 Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  16 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q2/2019
• Part Number
  MT6758 --