HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 655

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . 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)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +5828%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 655

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2120 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

4 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 735

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 6500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Mar 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8635

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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