HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Helio P90

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio P90 . 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 2200MHz)

MediaTek Helio P90 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1552 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

MediaTek Helio P90 +298%

414755

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

MediaTek Helio P90 +93%

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

MediaTek Helio P90 +70%

1377

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

MediaTek Helio P90 +171%

155

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

MediaTek Helio P90

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex A75
6x 2 GHz – Cortex A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

16 nm

Process

12 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

PowerVR GM9446

900 MHz

GPU frequency

970 MHz

2

Execution units

10

16

Shading units

8

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1552 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

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

13.91 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

MediaTek APU 2.0

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 2.0

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 64MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Nov 2018

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

MT6779V/CU

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio P90

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