HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1800MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +120%

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +33%

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2400 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 506

900 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

-

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Jun 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3650

Model number

SDM450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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