HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Helio G96

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

MediaTek Helio G96

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +71%

665287

MediaTek Helio G96

388043

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +48%

969

MediaTek Helio G96

651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +70%

3176

MediaTek Helio G96

1860

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +184%

691

MediaTek Helio G96

243

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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MediaTek Helio G96

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2860 MHz

Frequency

2050 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

12 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP2

600 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

16

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

64

12

Max size

10

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.243 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

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 650 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Jun 2021

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6781

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

MediaTek Helio G96

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