HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 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 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 15W)

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.9521 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (85.3GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3630MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +849%

2647012

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +1768%

4952

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

3630 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

12 MB

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

1612 MHz

8

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

24

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

4.9521 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

3.0

11.3

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

5333 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

85.3 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 890

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

6.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

MT6991

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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