HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +2853%

3070269

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +5828%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)

2360 MHz

Frequency

4320 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.7-A

-

L2 cache

24 MB

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

8 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 830

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

2

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

1536

4

Max size

24

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

3.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

5300 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

42.7 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2540

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X80

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

6.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Oct 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

SM8750-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

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