HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.727 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +331%

448489

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +163%

566

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +156%

2075

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +1175%

727

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

256 KB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

3

-

TDP

9 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 630

900 MHz

GPU frequency

710 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.727 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 685

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

X20

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 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

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Dec 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

SDM845

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

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