MediaTek Helio P90 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio P90 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio P90 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1552 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio P90 +38%

415

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio P90 +32%

1377

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio P90 +34%

155

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

MediaTek Helio P90

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex A75
6x 2 GHz – Cortex A55

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2200 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

12 nm

Process

16 nm

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GM9446

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

970 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

10

Execution units

4

8

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.1552 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

13.91 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

MediaTek APU 2.0

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2018

Announced

Apr 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6779V/CU

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio P90

Official page

-

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