HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs MediaTek Dimensity 720

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HiSilicon Kirin 655

MediaTek Dimensity 720

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 720 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2120MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)

MediaTek Dimensity 720 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3264 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +309%

774

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +168%

1861

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +471%

326

HiSilicon Kirin 655

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MediaTek Dimensity 720

CPU

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2120 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

10 W

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP3

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

2

Execution units

3

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

12

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3264 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Jul 2020

Mid range

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6853V

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 720

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