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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 970 vs Helio G88 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 970 Vs Helio G88

Kirin 970
VS
Helio G88
Kirin 970
Helio G88
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Helio G88 SoCs by Hisilicon and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970
15
Helio G88
14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970
12
Helio G88
10
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970
64
Helio G88
57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970
30
Helio G88
27

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 18.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (2360 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 3.67% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (1866 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (10 vs 12 nm).
  • Kirin 970 has 42.48% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (294 K vs 206 K).
  • Kirin 970 Support 122.22% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (29.8 vs 13.41 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 300.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (1200 vs 300 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Helio G88
  • Helio G88 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Helio G88 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 970
vs
Helio G88

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 +40%
293981
Helio G88
206336
CPU 77046 69667
GPU 90560 47988
Memory 66398 44409
UX 59977 44272
Total score 293981 206336

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 970 +3%
390
Helio G88
377
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 970 +6%
1361
Helio G88
1290
Image compression 76.9 Mpixels/s 82.7 Mpixels/s
Face detection 14 images/s 9.99 images/s
Speech recognition 24.5 words/s 25.2 words/s
Machine learning 21.8 images/s 19.5 images/s
Camera shooting 11.4 images/s 9.38 images/s
HTML 5 1.46 Mnodes/s 1.41 Mnodes/s
SQLite 417.7 Mnodes/s 415.2 Mnodes/s

3DMark

8%
Kirin 970
6%
Helio G88
Score: 1050

Stability 80% 98%
Graphics test 6 FPS 4 FPS
Score 1050 723

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Mediatek Helio G88

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @90Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

62%
Kirin 970
53%
Helio G88
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1840 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2360 MHz 2000 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 0.5 MB -
L3 cache 2 MB -
Process 10 nm 12 nm
Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
TDP 9 W -

Graphics

GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G52 MC2
Architecture Bifrost Bifrost
GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
Execution units 12 2
Shading units 192 32
FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 62 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 1800 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Yes
Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
1200
Helio G88
300
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Helio G88
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
150
Helio G88
100
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Helio G88
N/A
Modem - -
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 7
5G support No No
Peak Download speed - -
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 4.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date September 2017 June 2021
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number Hi3670 MT6769H
Official page Kirin 970 official site Helio G88 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

28.25


Review By TenzysTech
Mediatek Helio G88
Mediatek Helio G88
CPU
14%
GPU
10%
Memory
21%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%

20.25


Review By TenzysTech

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