HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Helio G96

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

MediaTek Helio G96

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 . 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 2050MHz)

MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.243 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

MediaTek Helio G96 +273%

388043

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

MediaTek Helio G96 +202%

651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

MediaTek Helio G96 +129%

1860

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

MediaTek Helio G96 +326%

243

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

MediaTek Helio G96

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2050 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 nm

Process

12 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP2

900 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

10

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.243 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

17.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 650 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Jun 2021

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

MT6781

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio G96

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