HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1200 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.9792 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +273%

1118

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +207%

3198

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +751%

979

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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MediaTek Dimensity 1200

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2500 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

320 KB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

6 nm

5 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP9

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

4

Execution units

9

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.9792 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 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 3.0

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Helio M70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4700 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6893

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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