Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Hisilicon Kirin 9000vs MediaTek Helio G85: tests and benchmarks

Hisilicon Kirin 9000 vs MediaTek Helio G85

Kirin 9000
VS
Helio G85
Kirin 9000
Helio G85

We’ve meticulously compared the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Helio G85 SoCs, developed by Hisilicon and Mediatek respectively. This comparison focuses on the pros and cons of their 8-core CPUs, backed by performance metrics from Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, and technical specifications.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the Chip

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Kirin 9000
  • Kirin 9000 has 56.50% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (3130 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has -24.00% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G85 (760 vs 1000 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 52.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (2750 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 206.46 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (762 K vs 249 K).
  • Kirin 9000 supports 228.11 % higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 ( 44 vs 13.41 MHz).
Pros of Helio G85
  • Helio G85 has 200.00 % smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9000 ( 12 vs 4 nm).

Benchmarks

Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.
SoC:
Kirin 9000
vs
Helio G85

AnTuTu 10

The AnTuTu Benchmark evaluates CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O capabilities across various scenarios.
Kirin 9000 +24%
762387
Helio G85
248776
CPU 194527 67123
GPU 280796 61260
Memory 146761 42828
UX 140303 77565
Total score 762387 248776

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Stability 54% -
Graphics test 36 FPS 4 FPS
Score 6040 710

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 9000 and Dimensity 9300

CPU

Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55		 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 2050MHz 1800MHz
Turbo Frequency 3130MHz 2000MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache 64 KB -
L2 cache 0.512 MB -
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 4 nanometers 12 nanometers
Transistor count 15.3 billion -
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 4 W 5 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G52 MP2
Architecture Valhall 2 Bifrost 2
GPU frequency 760 MHz 1000 MHz
Pipelines 24 2
Shading units 384 32
Total shaders 768 64
FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 59 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Neural Engine

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 1800 MHz
Bus - -
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video playback 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 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
5G support Yes No
Download speed 5G Up to 7168 Mbps -
Download speed 4G - Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed 5G Up to 2560 Mbps -
Upload speed 4G - Up to 100 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced October 2020 April 2020
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number - MT6769Z
Official page Kirin 9000 official site Helio G85 official site