HiSilicon Kirin 990
vs
MediaTek Helio G99

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 990 and MediaTek Helio G99 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Frequency: 2860 MHz (2860 MHz vs 2200 MHz)
  • Higher Technology: 6 nm (7 nm vs 6 nm)
  • Newer Launch Date: May 2022 (October 2019 vs May 2022)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
MediaTek
October 2019
Launch Date
May 2022
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Kirin 990
Model Name
MT6789
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A766x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
6 nm
2860 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
8
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-G76 MP16
GPU name
Mali-G57 MP2
600 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
0.6912 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2816 TFLOPS
36
Shading units
64
16
Execution units
2
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
3360 x 1440
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
-
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

Up to 4600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 650 Mbps
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
Yes
5G support
No
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
6
Wi-Fi
5
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

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

Miscellaneous

2 MB
L2 Cache
-
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
UFS 2.2
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
2K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VC-1
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
2K at 30FPS
6 W
TDP
5 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 990
971 +32%
Helio G99
733
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 990
3155 +58%
Helio G99
1994
FP32 (float)
Kirin 990
705 +156%
Helio G99
275