HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +588%

1481

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +368%

3794

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +2917%

1720

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

10 W

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 660

900 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

2

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

512

4

Max size

24

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780

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 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

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

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Dec 2020

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

SM8350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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