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HiSilicon Kirin 8000 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 8000 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 8000 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4423 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages
Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2400MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 8000 +418%
653311
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
126118
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 8000 +198%
442
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
148

CPU

1x 2.4 GHz – 1xA77 H
3x 2.19 GHz – 1xA77 L
4x 1.84 GHz – A55
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
2400 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
8
Cores
4
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
L2 cache
2 MB
7 nm
Process
28 nm
-
Transistor count
1
-
TDP
6 W
SMIC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G610 MP4
GPU name
Adreno 330
864 MHz
GPU frequency
578 MHz
-
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
128
12
Max size
4
0.4423 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.148 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR3
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
No
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
Storage type
eMMC 5.0
-
Max display resolution
2560 x 2048
-
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Balong
Modem
-

Connectivity

-
4G support
LTE Cat. 5
Yes
5G support
No
-
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.2
Bluetooth
4.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2024
Announced
Feb 2014
Mid range
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
MSM8974 v3
-
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