MediaTek MT8693 vs Samsung Exynos 7580. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Mediatek MT-Serie Samsung Exynos
• CPU group
  MediaTek MT81xx MT86xx A72 / A53 Samsung Exynos 7578/7580
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 1

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
  6 / 6 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 1.60 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 GX6250 ARM Mali-T720 MP2
• GPU frequency
  0.01 GHz 0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.01 GHz 0.65 GHz
• Execution units
  2 2
• Shader
  32 32
• Max. displays
  1 2
• Generation
  Midgard 3
• Direct X
  10 11
• Technology
  28 nm 28nm
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q4/2013

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 7580 and MediaTek MT8693. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-933 LPDDR3-933
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 0
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek MT8693 and Samsung Exynos 7580 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek MT8693 and MediaTek MT8693, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  -- N/A
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53 Cortex-A53
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Release date
  2016 Q2/2015