MediaTek Helio X30 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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MediaTek Helio X30

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio X30

336

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +188%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio X30

1115

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +184%

3176

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio X30

217

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +218%

691

MediaTek Helio X30

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

10

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

10 nm

Process

7 nm

3

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

850 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

4

Execution units

16

32

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

27.81 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 10

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Feb 2017

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MT6799

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio X30

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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