HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 . 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 2200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 +460%

582743

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 +340%

946

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 +239%

2750

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

4 nm

4

Transistor count

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 710

900 MHz

GPU frequency

-

2

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

22 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X62

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2900 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Sep 2022

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

SM6450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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