HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 . 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 2000MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4224 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +253%

367439

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +225%

699

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +124%

1817

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +640%

422

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

8 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

3 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 619

900 MHz

GPU frequency

825 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4224 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

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

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

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Jan 2021

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

SM4350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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