MediaTek Helio X20 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 20nm)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +167%

265

MediaTek Helio X20

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2100 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

20 nm

Process

16 nm

3

Transistor count

4

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

780 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

4

Execution units

8

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0998 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

12.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 25MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2015

Announced

Oct 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6797

Model number

Hi3660

MediaTek Helio X20

Official page

-

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