HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1800MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 +47%

153310

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +27%

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +6%

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 +101%

115

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

3 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 506

900 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 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

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Jun 2017

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

SDM450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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