HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs MediaTek Helio G81

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9010, vs MediaTek Helio G81. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9010 and MediaTek Helio G81
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
956941
MediaTek Helio G81
258706
CPU32667577856
GPU19233235328
Memory24441664438
UX19351881084
NanoReview Score956941258706
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1421
MediaTek Helio G81
420
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4323
MediaTek Helio G81
1391
File Compression170.6 MB/sn/a
HTML5 Browser126.9 pages/sn/a
PDF Rendering142.9 MP/secn/a
Background Blur12.3 frames/sn/a
Photo Processing43.8 frames/sn/a
Image Detection81.5 frames/sn/a
HDR120.2 MP/secn/a
Ray Tracing5.08 MP/secn/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 4x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
- 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2300 2000
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 12 nm
Power (TDP) n/a 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 910 Mali-G52 MP2
Architecture Maleoon Bifrost 2nd gen
GPU Frequency 750 MHz 1000 MHz
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 256 24
Total shader 1024 48
FLOPS 1536 GFLOPS 96 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Da Vinci Yes

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 1800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 3.1
- UFS 4.0
- eMMC 5.1
- UFS 2.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2520x1080 pixels
Camera n/a 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced April, 2024 yr August, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Low end
Codename Hi36A0V121 MT6769J

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 9010 the clear winner in this comparison.

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