HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . 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 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 20nm)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +167%

265

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

20 nm

4

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

8

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11.3

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

MT6797

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Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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