MediaTek Kompanio 500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Mediatek Kompanio Qualcomm Snapdragon
• CPU group
  MediaTek Kompanio 500 Qualcomm Snapdragon 865/870
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 7

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
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• 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-G72 MP3 Qualcomm Adreno 650
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz 0.25 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.67 GHz
• Execution units
  3 2
• Shader
  48 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  Bifrost 2 6
• Technology
  16 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2019

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 and MediaTek Kompanio 500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3LPDDR4X LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5500
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• Memory channels
  0 4
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Kompanio 500 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Kompanio 500 and MediaTek Kompanio 500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 Kryo 585
• Technology
  12 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q2/2021
• Part Number
  MT8183 SM8250-AC