MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

HiSilicon Kirin 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 . 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 31.78GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Score

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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HiSilicon Kirin 820

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

3250 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

7 nm

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP6

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

6

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

64

24

Max size

12

-

FLOPS

0.6528 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

31.78 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Mar 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

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