HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . 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)

Released 11 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1248 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 +50%

156131

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 +117%

124

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 506

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 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

1900 x 1200

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

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

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

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

MSM8953

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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