HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

MediaTek Helio X30 +56%

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

MediaTek Helio X30 +37%

1115

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

MediaTek Helio X30 +280%

217

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35

2360 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

10

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

3

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

2

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Feb 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

MT6799

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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