HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 . 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 13.91GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1800MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1536 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +36%

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

272

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +1%

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

999

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 +33%

153

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Gold
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Silver

2400 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

11 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 610

900 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.91 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 683

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3650

Model number

SM4250-AA

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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