MediaTek Kompanio 1200 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Mediatek Kompanio HiSilicon Kirin
• CPU group
  MediaTek Kompanio 900/1200/1300 HiSilicon Kirin 970
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 6

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-G57 MP5 ARM Mali-G72 MP12
• GPU frequency
  0.01 GHz 0.75 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.01 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  5 12
• Shader
  80 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  Vallhall 1 Bifrost 2
• Technology
  7 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q3/2017

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 970 and MediaTek Kompanio 1200. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-2133 LPDDR4X-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• Memory channels
  4 4
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Kompanio 1200 and HiSilicon Kirin 970 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  9 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Kompanio 1200 and MediaTek Kompanio 1200, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55 Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  6 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2017
• Part Number
  MT8195 --