HiSilicon Kirin 970
vs
MediaTek Helio G99

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 970 and MediaTek Helio G99 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Frequency: 2360 MHz (2360 MHz vs 2200 MHz)
  • Higher Technology: 6 nm (10 nm vs 6 nm)
  • Newer Launch Date: May 2022 (September 2017 vs May 2022)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
MediaTek
September 2017
Launch Date
May 2022
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Hi3670
Model Name
MT6789
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A766x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
8
Cores
8
10 nm
Technology
6 nm
2360 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
5.5
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-G72 MP12
GPU name
Mali-G57 MP2
768 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
0.3318 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2816 TFLOPS
18
Shading units
64
12
Execution units
2
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
12
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 650 Mbps
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
No
5G support
No
4.2
Bluetooth
5.2
5
Wi-Fi
5
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1866 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
2x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

2 MB
L2 Cache
-
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
UFS 2.1
Storage type
UFS 2.2
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
2K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
2K at 30FPS
9 W
TDP
5 W
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 970
386
Helio G99
733 +90%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 970
1377
Helio G99
1994 +45%
FP32 (float)
Kirin 970
324 +18%
Helio G99
275
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 970
363065
Helio G99
423470 +17%