HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +379%

498005

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +1043%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 820

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

5 W

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP6

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

2

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

12

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6528 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

31.78 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Mar 2020

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

-

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