HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs MediaTek Dimensity 820

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

MediaTek Dimensity 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

MediaTek Dimensity 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.416 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +127%

847

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +145%

2494

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +261%

416

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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MediaTek Dimensity 820

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2400 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP5

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.416 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

May 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3650

Model number

MT6875

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Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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