HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Helio G36

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

MediaTek Helio G36

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G36 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)

MediaTek Helio G36 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 5W)

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +80%

278916

MediaTek Helio G36

154460

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +78%

408

MediaTek Helio G36

229

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +63%

1385

MediaTek Helio G36

848

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +516%

265

MediaTek Helio G36

43

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

MediaTek Helio G36

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

12 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

2.2 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

PowerVR GE8320

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

8

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

8

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0435 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11.3

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2400 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 50MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 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, QZSS

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Feb 2022

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3660

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio G36

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