MediaTek Helio G99 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G99 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G99 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.2816 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G99

415167

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +40%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G99

733

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +13%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G99

1994

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +6%

2132

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G99

281

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +84%

518

MediaTek Helio G99

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2200 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

1100 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

2

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

10

Max size

8

0.2816 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

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

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

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

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

2K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 650 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2022

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6789

Model number

-

MediaTek Helio G99

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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