HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Dimensity 720

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

MediaTek Dimensity 720

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 720 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)

MediaTek Dimensity 720 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3264 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +40%

391528

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +89%

774

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +34%

1861

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

MediaTek Dimensity 720 +23%

326

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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MediaTek Dimensity 720

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP3

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

8

Execution units

3

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

12

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3264 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 20MP

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. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 150 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

Oct 2016

Announced

Jul 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

MT6853V

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 720

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