HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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HiSilicon Kirin 985

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2580MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +558%

652

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2580 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

7 nm

Process

20 nm

-

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP8

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

700 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

8

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.652 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

是

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

是

5G support

No

Up to 1277 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 177 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2020

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi6290

Model number

MT6797

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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