HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Helio P23

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P23 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0576 TFLOPS vs 0.0494 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

MediaTek Helio P23 Advantages

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +13%

215

MediaTek Helio P23

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

MediaTek Helio P23 +1%

822

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +16%

57

MediaTek Helio P23

49

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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MediaTek Helio P23

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.65 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

16 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

2.5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP2

900 MHz

GPU frequency

770 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

6

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0494 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2160 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Aug 2017

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

MT6763V/CT

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Official page

MediaTek Helio P23

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