HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek MT6580

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6580 . 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 0.004 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 4.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +8175%

331

MediaTek MT6580

4

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

MediaTek MT6580

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A7

2360 MHz

Frequency

1300 MHz

8

Cores

4

2 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

28 nm

5.5

Transistor count

1

9 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-400 MP2

768 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

2

8

Max size

2

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.004 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

10

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

4.3 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1440 x 720

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Jan 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3670

Model number

MT6580

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek MT6580

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