HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . 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 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 20nm)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0998 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

MediaTek Helio X20 +73%

99

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

16 nm

Process

20 nm

4

Transistor count

3

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

900 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

2

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 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

2560 x 1600

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

May 2015

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

MT6797

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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