HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek MT6580

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

MediaTek MT6580

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6580 . 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 0.004 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 4.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +6525%

265

MediaTek MT6580

4

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

MediaTek MT6580

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A7

2360 MHz

Frequency

1300 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

-

4 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

16 nm

Process

28 nm

4

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-400 MP2

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

2

4

Max size

2

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.004 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11.3

DirectX version

10

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

533 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

4.3 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1440 x 720

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Jan 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3660

Model number

MT6580

-

Official page

MediaTek MT6580

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