In fact, Samsung’s 14nm isn’t a true 14nm either. However, they decided to name it 12nm to gain an edge during marketing.Įven some of the biggest Tech Youtubers & Bloggers become a victim of this false marketing and end up telling their audience than 12nm is much better than 14nm. After they enhanced their 16nm Node, it became somewhat equivalent to Samsung’s 14nm Node. TSMC’s 12nm Process is just a marketing gimmick and an enhanced version of their 16nm Node. Yes, 12nm sounds so much better than 14nm, but it is one of those strategies that brands do to mislead their consumers. In fact, I have written a whole article where I’ve explained all this. But due to the slowdown of Moore’s Law and to mislead their consumers, most companies have started naming these fabrication nodes as per their marketing strategy. Once there was a time when these nanometer values actually used to mean something and had a physical significance.
Wrong! Well, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Most of you that know the basics about Processors will probably guess that 12nm is more Power efficient than 14nm because lower nanometer number is better, right? The MediaTek Helio P70 also has a better AI Engine. The maximum frequency of the 660 can reach up to 2.2 GHz while it is limited to 2.1 GHz in case of P70. You can also call them semi-custom cores.īut in case of Helio P70, they have directly implemented the ARM’s designs without any customizations. The CPU Core Configuration on both the chips is pretty similar except for the fact that the CPU Cores of Snapdragon 660 are enhanced variants of the existing Cortex-A73 & Cortex-A53 architectures. We will get back to the difference between these fabrication technologies in the next section. One of the major differences is that Snapdragon 660 is fabricated by Samsung’s 14nm Process while MediaTek’s Helio P70 is fabricated using TSMC’s 12nm Process. When going through the specification, both the SOCs seem quite similar. Or you can say that we are directly comparing the performance of Redmi Note 7 against the Realme 3.įirst, let’s have a look at the specification.
#Helio p70 vs 660 pro
But before we get started, here’s a reminder that there also exists an underclocked Snapdragon 660 with a clock speed of 1.95 GHz that can be found in devices like Realme 2 Pro and Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2.īut in this review, we will be comparing the actual Snapdragon 660 (2.2 GHz) that is present in smartphones like Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, Mi A2, and Nokia 7 Plus.
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