HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs MediaTek Helio X20

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HiSilicon Kirin 9000S MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2620MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000S 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 9000S Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2620MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 8 years and 3 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 7W)

Score

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

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MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

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

2620 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

7 nm

Process

20 nm

-

Transistor count

3

7 W

TDP

5 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 910

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

750 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

-

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2023

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi36A0

Model number

MT6797

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Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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