HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek Helio G36

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 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 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 12nm)

MediaTek Helio G36 Advantages

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +130%

355946

MediaTek Helio G36

154460

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +68%

386

MediaTek Helio G36

229

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +62%

1377

MediaTek Helio G36

848

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +669%

331

MediaTek Helio G36

43

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

12 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

2.2 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

PowerVR GE8320

768 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0435 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2400 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 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

Sep 2017

Announced

Feb 2022

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek Helio G36

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