MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
4210 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L3 cache
16 MB
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Process
3 nm
16 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
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Transistor count
-
4

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
900 MHz
Shading units
128
16
Vulkan version
1.4
1.0
OpenCL version
3.0
1.2
DirectX version
12.1
11
Execution units
-
2

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
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AI

NPU
MediaTek NPU 990
-
Theoretical Performance
100 TOPS
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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
eMMC 5.1
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
1K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
No
Max display resolution
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1920 x 1200

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 7
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 300 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
4
Bluetooth
6.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Upload speed
-
Up to 50 Mbps

Info

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

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
103,952
Geekbench 6
3,781
215
Geekbench 6
12,189
810
FP32 (float)
5,376
57