HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Google Tensor G5

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

Google Tensor G5

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G5 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.536 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Google Tensor G5 +1290%

1445942

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Google Tensor G5 +2594%

1536

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Google Tensor G5

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

2360 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

-

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

2

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

-

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Aug 2025

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

-

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