MediaTek Helio G96 vs HiSilicon Kirin 985

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 vs. 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2580MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G96

243

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +168%

652

MediaTek Helio G96

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

CPU

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

2050 MHz

Frequency

2580 MHz

8

Cores

8

12 nm

Process

7 nm

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP8

950 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

2

Execution units

8

64

Shading units

128

10

Max size

12

0.243 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.652 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

是

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

是

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 650 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1277 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 177 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2021

Announced

Apr 2020

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6781

Model number

Hi6290

MediaTek Helio G96

Official page

-

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