MediaTek Helio G96 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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MediaTek Helio G96

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G96

388043

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +79%

695853

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G96

651

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +52%

990

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G96

1860

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +70%

3179

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G96

243

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +184%

691

MediaTek Helio G96

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

2050 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

12 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

950 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

16

64

Shading units

36

10

Max size

12

0.243 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 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

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

No

Up to 650 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2021

Announced

Oct 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6781

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio G96

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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