HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Google Tensor

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Google Tensor

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Google Tensor . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1709 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Google Tensor +667%

797825

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Google Tensor +513%

1319

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Google Tensor +299%

3234

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Google Tensor +3707%

2170

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Google Tensor

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X1
2x 2.25 GHz – Cortex A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

5.6 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP20

900 MHz

GPU frequency

848 MHz

2

Execution units

20

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

12

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1709 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Tensor Processing Unit

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Tensor Processing Unit

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

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, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5300g

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Oct 2021

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

S5E9845

-

Official page

Google Tensor

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