HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.2021 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +610%

738889

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +424%

1128

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +304%

3277

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +2008%

1202

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

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

10.3

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 650

900 MHz

GPU frequency

587 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

512

4

Max size

16

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.2021 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

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

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Dec 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

SM8250-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

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