HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
Frequency
2360 MHz
3250 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
16 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
4
-
L2 cache
-
1 MB
L3 cache
-
6 MB
Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Mali-G720 MP7
GPU frequency
900 MHz
1300 MHz
Execution units
2
-
Shading units
16
128
Vulkan version
1.0
1.3
OpenCL version
1.2
3.2
DirectX version
11
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
-
68.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
2960 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 7
-
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 5170 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
4
6
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Jan 2017
May 2025
Class
Mid range
Mid range
Model number
Hi6250
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Official page
-

AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 880

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
103,952
1,675,507
Geekbench 6
215
1,617
Geekbench 6
810
6,406
FP32 (float)
57
2,329