HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0576 TFLOPS vs 0.024 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 +31%

136588

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +137%

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

28 nm

4

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 308

900 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

24

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.024 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

667 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

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 75 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

MSM8917

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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