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HiSilicon Kirin 960s vs MediaTek MT8161

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

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The HiSilicon Kirin 960S is an ARM based mid-range octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablets, which was introduced with the 2018 10.5-inch Huawei MediaPad M5. Compared to the normal Kirin 960, the 960S offers an additional NPU for AI calculations from the Kirin 970. Looks like to be slower clocked than the older Kirin 960.

Besides 8 CPU cores (4x Cortex-A73, 4x Cortex-A53), the SoC is also equipped with a modern Mali-G71 MP8 graphics adapter, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller as well as an LTE Cat. 12/13 modem. It is one of the fastest ARM SoCs in the end of 2016. The Kirin 960 is manufactured in a modern 16-nm process at TSMC.

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).

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 960sMediaTek MT8161
Series Mediatek
CodenameCortex-A73/-A53Cortex-A53
Series: Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 970 compare2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960 compare2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960s « 2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710A compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
JLQ JR510 compare1.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 935 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 659 compare2.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 658 compare2.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 655 compare2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 650 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 930 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 620 compare1.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz compare1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz compare1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8161 « 1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA1908 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Clock2100 MHz1300 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 84 / 4
Technology16 nm28 nm
FeaturesARM Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x 32 Bit LPDDR4 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 TrustZone
iGPUARM Mali-G71 MP8 ( - 900 MHz)ARM Mali-T720 MP2
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 MT8161 +
8693 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 MT8161 +
8398 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
14698 Points (12%)
9598 Points (8%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
2323 Points (27%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
2101 Points (24%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
1634 Points (16%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
5809 Points (6%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1706 Points (23%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
5609 Points (14%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
5734 Points (9%)
1838 Points (3%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
1756 Points (26%)
616 Points (9%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
2165 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
3780 Points (34%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
10498 Points (21%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
5303 Points (11%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
6502 Points (17%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
5947 ms (7%)
24610 ms (29%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 MT8161 +
1713 ms (19%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 MT8161 +
1654 ms (16%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
6802 Points (6%)
2510 Points (2%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
100%
1 MT8161 +
911 Points (24%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
100%
1 MT8161 +
1398 Points (31%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
100%
1 MT8161 +
1866 Points (25%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
100%
1 MT8161 +
7512 points (17%)
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
100%
1 MT8161 +
26820 Points (27%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
147305 Points (50%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
8364 Points (26%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
28103 Points (34%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
33870 Points (11%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
43350 Points (27%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
113687 Points (20%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
100%
1 MT8161 +
768 Iter./s (24%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
100%
1 MT8161 +
7742 Iter./s (25%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 MT8161 +
43768 Points (6%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
5114 Points (33%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
5040 Points (25%)
3396 Points (17%)

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 960s → 100% n=6

Average Benchmarks MediaTek MT8161 → 52% n=6

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