MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
3250 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
-
Process
4 nm
16 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
64 KB
Transistor count
-
4
TDP
-
5 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Mali-G71 MP8
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1037 MHz
Shading units
128
16
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
11.3
Execution units
-
8
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
1600 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
28.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
2560 x 1600
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
No
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 12
Upload speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
278,916
Geekbench 6
1,617
408
Geekbench 6
6,406
1,385
FP32 (float)
2,329
265