HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +469%

592031

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +336%

939

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +252%

2855

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +1475%

898

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

6.7

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 640

900 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

384

4

Max size

16

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 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

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Dec 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

SM8150

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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