HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

Released 7 months late

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2360MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +14%

386

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +23%

1377

MediaTek Helio X30

1115

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +52%

331

MediaTek Helio X30

217

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

10

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

10 nm

5.5

Transistor count

3

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

768 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

32

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

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

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Feb 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

MT6799

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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