MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs HiSilicon Kirin 950

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

HiSilicon Kirin 950

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 . 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 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +343%

1651

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +572%

6833

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

3250 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

16

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3650

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

-

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