HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs MediaTek Helio G88

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G88 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.096 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

MediaTek Helio G88 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +115%

583410

MediaTek Helio G88

270546

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +95%

835

MediaTek Helio G88

427

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +57%

2132

MediaTek Helio G88

1357

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +439%

518

MediaTek Helio G88

96

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek Helio G88

CPU

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

12 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP2

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

24

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.096 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Jun 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MT6769H

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

MediaTek Helio G88

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