HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 . 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 460 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1536 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 +88%

195931

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 +26%

272

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 +23%

999

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 +168%

153

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Gold
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Silver

2360 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

11 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

3 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 610

900 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

13.91 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 683

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Jan 2020

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

SM4250-AA

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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