MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 655

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MediaTek Dimensity 820 HiSilicon Kirin 655

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs. 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.416 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 5 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +348%

847

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +259%

2494

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +629%

416

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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HiSilicon Kirin 655

CPU

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

2120 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

650 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

5

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

16

Max size

4

0.416 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

May 2020

Announced

Dec 2016

Mid range

Class

Mid range

MT6875

Model number

-

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

-

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