Samsung Exynos 2500 vs MediaTek Helio G81
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A756x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
3300 MHz
2000 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
Process
3 nm
12 nm
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
Graphics
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
950 MHz
GPU name
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Mali-G52 MP2
Shading units
—
24
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
1800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
13.41 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Yes
Yes
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2520 x 1080
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max camera resolution
—
1x 48MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
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5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.4
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Aug 2025
Aug 2024
Class
Flagship
Low end
Model number
S5E9955
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Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,519,784
262,145
Geekbench 6
2,648
420
Geekbench 6
9,881
1,391
FP32 (float)
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91
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.