HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Helio G81

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

MediaTek Helio G81

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G81 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

MediaTek Helio G81 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0912 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

MediaTek Helio G81 +152%

262145

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

MediaTek Helio G81 +59%

91

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

MediaTek Helio G81

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 nm

Process

12 nm

4

Transistor count

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP2

900 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

2

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

24

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0912 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

-

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

-

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Aug 2024

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

-

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