HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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HiSilicon Kirin 655

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.148 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2120MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 +159%

148

HiSilicon Kirin 655

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2120 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

28 nm

4

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 330

900 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Feb 2014

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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