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HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs MediaTek MT8161 vs HiSilicon Kirin 930

HiSilicon Kirin 658

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The HiSilicon Kirin 658 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced early 2017 and features eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores. Four cores can be clocked with up to 1.7 GHz (power saving cores) and four with up to 2.35 GHz (performance cores). The difference to the older Kirin 650 and Kirin 655 SoCs is the higher clock speed of the performance cores (2.35 versus 2.1 and 2.0 GHz).

Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at 900 MHz with 40.8 GFLOPS), a 64-Bit LPDDR3 memory controller and a dual-sim capable LTE Cat. 6 (max. 300 MBit/s and GSM, WCDMA, UMTS, HSPA+) radio are integrated in the SoC. The processor performance can be compared with the older Kirin 930 and therefore sufficient for daily usage as browsing and non demanding apps. High-end SoCs with Cortex-A57 or A72 cores however should be noticeably faster. The SoC is produced in a modern 16nm FinFET process and is therefore very power efficient.

MediaTek MT8161

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The MediaTek MT8161 is an ARM based entry-level to mid-range SoC for (Android based) tablets. It offers four ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores (quad-core) that are clocked with up to 1.3 GHz. Furthermore, an ARM Mali-720 graphics card, a LPDDR3 memory controller (e.g., accessing 1 GB in the Lenovo Tab 2 A8-50), Bluetooth 4.0 and dual-band 802.11 b/g/n are integrated in the SoC.

The performance is situated in the entry level of 2015 and often similar to the Kirin 910T (see benchmark below).

HiSilicon Kirin 930

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The HiSilicon Kirin 930 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC (system-on-a-chip) for smartphones and tablets. It was launched in the first half of 2015. It integrates two quad-core clusters of Cortex-A53 cores (big.LITTLE). The performance cluster clocks at up to 2 GHz, the power saving cluster at up to 1.5 GHz. Furthermore, the SoC integrates a ARM Mali-T628 MP4 graphics card and LTE Cat. 6 modem. The SoC is manufactured in 28nm and thanks to the small Cortex-A53 cores also suited for smaller smartphones.

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 658MediaTek MT8161HiSilicon Kirin 930
CodenameCortex-A53Cortex-A53Cortex-A53
Clock2350 MHz1300 MHz2000 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 84 / 48 / 8
Technology16 nm28 nm28 nm
FeaturesARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory ControllerLP-DDR3 memory controller, 1080p video encode, 1080p video decode, embedded GPS / GLONASS / BeiDou module, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio support, ARM Jazelle, ARM TrustZoneARM Mali-T628 MP4 GPU, 4x Cortex-A53e (2.0 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.5 GHz, big.LITTLE), LTE Cat. 6, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR3-1600 Memory Controller
iGPUARM Mali-T830 MP2 (900 MHz)ARM Mali-T720 MP2ARM Mali-T628 MP4 ( - 600 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 MT8161 +
8693 Points (7%)
9337 Points (8%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 MT8161 +
8398 Points (7%)
min: 9404     avg: 9487     median: 9499 (8%)     max: 9557 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
13510 Points (11%)
9598 Points (8%)
min: 10447     avg: 10528     median: 10494 (9%)     max: 10643 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
1608 Points (16%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
1554 Points (18%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
913 Points (9%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
3460 Points (3%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
874 Points (12%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
3348 Points (8%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 MT8161 +
1838 Points (3%)
min: 3458     avg: 3498     median: 3497.5 (5%)     max: 3537 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 MT8161 +
616 Points (9%)
min: 864     avg: 873     median: 872.5 (13%)     max: 881 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2955     avg: 3212     median: 3211.5 (6%)     max: 3468 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 698     avg: 761     median: 760.5 (15%)     max: 823 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 272     avg: 272.3     median: 272.3 (9%)     max: 272.5 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 121     avg: 121.5     median: 121.5 (12%)     max: 122 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
8591 ms (10%)
24610 ms (29%)
min: 9903     avg: 11085     median: 11544 (13%)     max: 11808 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 MT8161 +
1713 ms (19%)
min: 1021     avg: 1093     median: 1092.5 (12%)     max: 1164 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 MT8161 +
1654 ms (16%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
4589 Points (4%)
2510 Points (2%)
min: 3866     avg: 4211     median: 4084 (3%)     max: 4682 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
100%
1 MT8161 +
911 Points (24%)
1254 Points (34%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
100%
1 MT8161 +
1398 Points (31%)
2044 Points (46%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
100%
1 MT8161 +
1866 Points (25%)
2756 Points (36%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
100%
1 MT8161 +
7512 points (17%)
13277 points (31%)
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
100%
1 MT8161 +
26820 Points (27%)
min: 45927     avg: 47313     median: 47313 (48%)     max: 48699 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
60438 Points (21%)
52322 Points (18%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
100%
1 MT8161 +
768 Iter./s (24%)
1338 Iter./s (41%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
100%
1 MT8161 +
7742 Iter./s (25%)
20284 Iter./s (67%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 MT8161 +
43768 Points (6%)
125047 Points (16%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
4464 Points (29%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
5794 Points (29%)
3396 Points (17%)
min: 4358     avg: 4432     median: 4458 (22%)     max: 4479 Points

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 658 → 100% n=4

Average Benchmarks MediaTek MT8161 → 55% n=4

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 930 → 80% n=4

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
red legend - Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)