MediaTek Helio P70 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 710: What is the difference?

Has integrated LTE

✔

MediaTek Helio P70

✔

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710

The system on a chip (SoC) has an integrated LTE cellular chip. LTE is capable of downloading at faster speeds than older, 3G technology.

download speed

300MBits/s

800MBits/s

The download speed is a measurement of the internet connection bandwidth, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can access online content.

upload speed

150MBits/s

150MBits/s

The upload speed is a measurement of the internet connection bandwidth, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can send information to a server or another device.

Has TrustZone

✔

MediaTek Helio P70 ( ARM Cortex-A53

✔

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 ( ARM Cortex-A75

A technology integrated into the processor to secure the device for use with features such as mobile payments and streaming video using digital rights management (DRM).

uses multithreading

✖

MediaTek Helio P70

✖

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710

Multithreading technology (such as Intel’s Hyperthreading or AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading) provides increased performance by splitting each of the processor’s physical cores into virtual cores, also known as threads. This way, each core can run two instruction streams at once.

Has NX bit

✔

MediaTek Helio P70 ( ARM Cortex-A53

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 710

NX bit helps protect the computer from malicious attacks.

bits executed at a time

128 (ARM Cortex-A53)

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NEON provides acceleration for media processing, such as listening to MP3s.

VFP version

4 (ARM Cortex-A53)

2

Vector Floating-Point (VFP) is used by the processor to deliver increased performance in areas such as digital imaging.