HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs MediaTek Dimensity 8200

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G CPU1 vs CPU2 MediaTek Dimensity 8200
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G MediaTek Dimensity 8200

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or MediaTek Dimensity 8200 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.86 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G was released in Q3/2019.

The MediaTek Dimensity 8200 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.10 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The MediaTek Dimensity 8200 was released in Q4/2022.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Mediatek Dimensity (36)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group MediaTek Dimensity 8000 4nm (1)
8 Generation 3
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Cortex-A78 / -A78 / -A55
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is 2.86 GHz while the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 is at 3.10 GHz.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic MediaTek Dimensity 8200
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 8
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 3.10 GHz
1x Cortex-A78
2.09 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
B-Core 3.00 GHz
3x Cortex-A78
1.86 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
C-Core 2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A55

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic MediaTek Dimensity 8200
HUAWEI HiAI 2.0 AI hardware --
Da Vinci Architecture. 1x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or MediaTek Dimensity 8200 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

ARM Mali-G76 MP16 GPU ARM Mali-G610 MP6
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
-- GPU (Turbo) --
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation Vallhall 3
7 nm Technology 4 nm
2 Max. displays 1
16 Compute units 6
256 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

ARM Mali-G76 MP16 GPU ARM Mali-G610 MP6
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G can use up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The MediaTek Dimensity 8200 supports up to GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 51.2 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic MediaTek Dimensity 8200
LPDDR4X-2133 Memory LPDDR5-6400
8 GB Max. Memory
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache --
-- PCIe version --
-- PCIe lanes --
-- PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is 6 W, while the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 has a TDP of --. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic MediaTek Dimensity 8200
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) --
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The MediaTek Dimensity 8200 is manufactured in 4 nm and has a 0.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic MediaTek Dimensity 8200
7 nm Technology 4 nm
Chiplet Chip design Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions --
-- Socket --
None Virtualization None
No AES-NI No
Android Operating systems Android
Q3/2019 Release date Q4/2022
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G (82%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G (87%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (77%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 MediaTek Dimensity 8200
8C 8T @ 3.10 GHz
987 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (77%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 MediaTek Dimensity 8200
8C 8T @ 3.10 GHz
3699 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (87%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 MediaTek Dimensity 8200
8C 8T @ 3.10 GHz
1151 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (96%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 MediaTek Dimensity 8200
8C 8T @ 3.10 GHz
3369 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
ARM Mali-G76 MP16 @ 0.60 GHz
737 (100%)
MediaTek Dimensity 8200 MediaTek Dimensity 8200
ARM Mali-G610 MP6 @ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G MediaTek Dimensity 8200
Huawei Mate 30 Pro Unknown

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