HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400e

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X43x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency
2360 MHz
3400 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
64 KB
-
L2 cache
0
-
Process
16 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
4
22.7
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
8 MB

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
1300 MHz
Execution units
8
-
Shading units
16
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
3.0
DirectX version
11.3
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
68.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- 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. 12
-
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 7300 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Oct 2016
May 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3660
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Official page
-

AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 790

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
278,916
2,159,260
Geekbench 6
408
2,233
Geekbench 6
1,385
7,258
FP32 (float)
265
3,993