HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +327%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +396%

6833

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

2360 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

2 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

0

L3 cache

6 MB

10 nm

Process

4 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

12

Execution units

6

18

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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