HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 MediaTek Dimensity 1200

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1200 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.9792 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +23%

722511

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +33%

1118

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +50%

3198

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +88%

979

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek Dimensity 1200

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

320 KB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

6 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP9

720 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

10

Execution units

9

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.9792 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

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

MediaTek APU 3.0

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 3.0

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Helio M70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4700 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6893

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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