78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
Mediatek Helio G90T
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Helio G90T

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Helio G90T 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 15
Helio G90T 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Helio G90T 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Helio G90T 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Helio G90T 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Helio G90T
CPU 77046 98285
GPU 90560 80267
Memory 66398 55541
UX 59977 55908
Total score 293981 290001
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 15.12% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G90T (2360 vs 2050 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 6.25% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G90T (850 vs 800 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G90T (10 vs 12 nm).
  • Kirin 970 has 1.37% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G90T (294 K vs 290 K).
  • Kirin 970 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G90T (1200 vs 600 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G90T

  • Helio G90T has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Helio G90T has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

icon
Kirin 970 390
Helio G90T 545

Multi-Core Score

icon
Kirin 970 1361
Helio G90T 1706

Image compression

icon
Kirin 970 76.9
Helio G90T 94.5

Face detection

icon
Kirin 970 14
Helio G90T 13.8

Speech recognition

icon
Kirin 970 24.5
Helio G90T 31.1

Machine learning

icon
Kirin 970 21.8
Helio G90T 25.6

Camera shooting

icon
Kirin 970 11.4
Helio G90T 13.1

HTML 5

icon
Kirin 970 1.46
Helio G90T 1.89

SQLite

icon
Kirin 970 417.7
Helio G90T 494.9

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 87%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2050 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • 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 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G76 MC4
  • Architecture Bifrost Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 12 4
  • Shading units 192 64
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 184 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 10 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 64MP, 2x 24MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Mediatek Helio G90T

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
Choose between two processors

Cast your vote