#Mali t880 vs adreno 530 android#
For this comparison, we have excluded processors from Intel and Nvidia, as neither company offers them for smartphones or standard Android tablets. Excluding Apple’s in-house models, the only other mainstream or high-end processor using PowerVR is the Helio X10, which features a two-core G6200 that scores just 5.5fps on Manhattan 3.1. Imagination’s PowerVR GPUs have nearly disappeared from the current generation of phones. ARM’s Mali GPUs appear in many other mobile processors to save die area, however, chips such as Huawei’s Kirin 955 and MediaTek’s Helio X20 use smaller configurations and thus yield much lower performance. It’s also larger, resulting in poor area efficiency. This design is competitive on the GFXBench tests but trails both the Apple and Qualcomm GPUs. Many Galaxy S7 phones employ Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 processor, which features a 12-core Mali-T880 GPU. We believe the A10 runs its GPU at speeds as high as 900MHz. Benchmark results posted to the GFXBench web site indicate gains of only 11% on Manhattan 3.0 and 7% on Manhattan 3.1. The new iPhone 7 uses the Apple A10 Fusion processor, which contains a custom version of Imagination’s PowerVR GT7600 GPU. Die area is an important metric, as it controls both cost and power, so Adreno’s efficiency edge should benefit both customers and end users. The chip’s Adreno 530 GPU, which the company designed internally, not only leads in performance but is also smaller than other flagship GPUs, giving the design a big advantage in area efficiency (performance per square millimeter). In our newest comparison of mobile processors, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 tops the list in graphics performance.