78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
Mediatek Helio G99
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Helio G99

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Helio G99 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 G99 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Helio G99 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Helio G99 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Helio G99 38
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Helio G99
CPU 77046 103357
GPU 90560 86376
Memory 66398 89007
UX 59977 101683
Total score 293981 380423
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 7.27% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2360 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 74.27% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G99 (29.8 vs 17.1 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 128.62% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (4266 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Helio G99 has 29.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (380 K vs 294 K ).
  • Helio G99 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Helio G99 543

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Helio G99 1740

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Helio G99 114.8

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Helio G99 14.3

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Helio G99 36.1

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Helio G99 30.2

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Helio G99 16.4

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Helio G99 1.73

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Helio G99 599.6

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • 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

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 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 2.2 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 6 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 12 2
  • Shading units 192 32
  • FLOPS 347 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 17.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 10 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 108MP, 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 G99

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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