HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Helio X30

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

MediaTek Helio X30

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . 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 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +188%

969

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +184%

3176

MediaTek Helio X30

1115

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +218%

691

MediaTek Helio X30

217

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35

2860 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

7 nm

Process

10 nm

8

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

600 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

16

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

32

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Feb 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6799

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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