HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 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 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

969

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +70%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

3176

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +115%

6833

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2860 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

2 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

7 nm

Process

4 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

16

Execution units

6

36

Shading units

-

12

Max size

24

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

-

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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