HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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HiSilicon Kirin 655

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +423%

990

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +358%

3179

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +1112%

691

HiSilicon Kirin 655

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

2120 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

900 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

-

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Oct 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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