MediaTek Helio G90 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 10 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.2074 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G90 +63%

632

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G90 +17%

1619

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G90

207

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +59%

331

MediaTek Helio G90

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

2050 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

12 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

720 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

4

Execution units

12

36

Shading units

18

10

Max size

8

0.2074 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 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

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

MediTek APU 2.0

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

MediTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2019

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6785V/CD

Model number

Hi3670

MediaTek Helio G90

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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