HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 3630MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 . 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 15W)

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.9521 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3630MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +4206%

4952

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720

2500 MHz

Frequency

3630 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

12 MB

16 nm

Process

3 nm

5 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1612 MHz

4

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

24

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

4.9521 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

3.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

-

Memory frequency

5333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

85.3 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 890

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9

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

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

6.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6991

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

Related SoC Comparison

1

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

2

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

3

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Dimensity 800

4

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1000

5

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs HiSilicon Kirin 810

6

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

7

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8000

8

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Apple A18 Pro

9

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 710

10

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs HiSilicon Kirin 710F