MediaTek MT8766B vs HiSilicon Kirin 955. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Mediatek MT-Serie HiSilicon Kirin
• CPU group
  MediaTek MT87xx 12nm HiSilicon Kirin 950
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 4

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
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 1.80 GHz

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
  PowerVR GE8300 ARM Mali-T880 MP4
• GPU frequency
  0.01 GHz 0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.90 GHz
• Execution units
  1 4
• Shader
  0 64
• Max. displays
  1 2
• Generation
  Midgard 4
• Technology
  20 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2017 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 955 and MediaTek MT8766B. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3LPDDR4 LPDDR3LPDDR4
• Memory channels
  0 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek MT8766B and HiSilicon Kirin 955 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek MT8766B and MediaTek MT8766B, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  12 nm 16 nm
• Socket
  -- N/A
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A53 Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2016