HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . 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 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +103%

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

4

16 nm

Process

12 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 504

900 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 536

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

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

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Jun 2018

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

SDM429

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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