HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 . 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)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 20nm)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3072 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

216

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +71%

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

473

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.5 GHz Cortex A53
4x 2.0 GHz Cortex A57

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

20 nm

4

Transistor count

2.5

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 430

900 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3072 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon V56

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1 x 55MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X10

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 9

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Apr 2014

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

MSM8994

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

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