HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8000

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

MediaTek Dimensity 8000

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2750MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8000 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

MediaTek Dimensity 8000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.309 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2750MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

MediaTek Dimensity 8000 +393%

1309

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8000

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2750 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G610 MP6

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

860 MHz

8

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.309 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

MediaTek UltraSave 2.0

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4700 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

MT6895

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8000

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