MediaTek Helio G36 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G36 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G36 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 5W)

Released 5 years and 10 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G36

229

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +30%

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G36

848

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +22%

1040

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G36

43

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +167%

115

MediaTek Helio G36

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2200 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

12 nm

Process

16 nm

2.2 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8320

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

680 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

4

Execution units

4

8

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.0435 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

13.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2400 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 50MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2022

Announced

Apr 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

MediaTek Helio G36

Official page

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