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MediaTek Helio P90 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio P90 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio P90 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)
Released 1 years and 2 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.1552 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.91GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
MediaTek Helio P90 +16%
414755
HiSilicon Kirin 970
355946
Geekbench 6 Single Core
MediaTek Helio P90 +7%
415
HiSilicon Kirin 970
386
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
MediaTek Helio P90
1377
HiSilicon Kirin 970
1377
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Helio P90
155
HiSilicon Kirin 970 +113%
331

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex A75
6x 2 GHz – Cortex A55
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2200 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
1 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
-
L3 cache
0
12 nm
Process
10 nm
-
Transistor count
5.5
5 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GM9446
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
970 MHz
GPU frequency
768 MHz
10
Execution units
12
8
Shading units
18
8
Max size
8
0.1552 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3318 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12

Memory

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1866 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
13.91 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek APU 2.0
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Storage type
UFS 2.1
2520 x 1080
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
1x 64MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2018
Announced
Sep 2017
Mid range
Class
Flagship
MT6779V/CU
Model number
Hi3670
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