HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek Helio P23

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

MediaTek Helio P23

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P23 . 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 0.0494 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

MediaTek Helio P23 Advantages

Lower TDP (2.5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +104%

386

MediaTek Helio P23

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +67%

1377

MediaTek Helio P23

822

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +575%

331

MediaTek Helio P23

49

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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MediaTek Helio P23

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.65 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

16 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

2.5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP2

768 MHz

GPU frequency

770 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

6

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0494 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2160 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 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

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Aug 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3670

Model number

MT6763V/CT

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek Helio P23

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