HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Helio X20

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 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 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +597%

691

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2860 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

20 nm

8

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

600 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

16

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.3

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

AI

Da Vinci

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

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. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6797

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

Related SoC Comparison

1

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

2

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

3

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Unisoc SC9863A

4

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

5

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Dimensity 1300

6

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Dimensity 800

7

MediaTek Dimensity 7020 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

8

MediaTek Helio G95 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

9

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Dimensity 8000

10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Dimensity 1000 Plus