HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Frequency
2860 MHz
4210 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
512 KB
-
L2 cache
0
-
Process
7 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
8
-
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
16 MB

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G76 MP16
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
GPU frequency
600 MHz
1750 MHz
Execution units
16
-
Shading units
36
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.4
OpenCL version
2.0
3.0
DirectX version
12
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
5333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
85.3 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
-
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
-
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VC-1
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
Max camera resolution
-
1x 320MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 4600 Mbps
Up to 10700 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1250 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Oct 2019
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Official page

AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 990
Theoretical Performance
-
100 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
665,287
4,011,932
FP32 (float)
691
5,376
Geekbench 6
-
3,781
Geekbench 6
-
12,189