HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 . 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 660 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +117%

225927

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +60%

345

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +53%

1242

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +280%

217

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

1.75

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 512

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

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

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

May 2017

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

SM6115

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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