HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Helio G90

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

MediaTek Helio G90

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2050MHz)

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2074 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

MediaTek Helio G90 +111%

632

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

MediaTek Helio G90 +55%

1619

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

MediaTek Helio G90 +80%

207

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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MediaTek Helio G90

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2500 MHz

Frequency

2050 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 nm

Process

12 nm

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP4

900 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

10

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2074 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

2x 32 Bit

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

MediTek APU 2.0

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP

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

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Jul 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6785V/CD

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio G90

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