HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 . 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 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2000MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4224 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +87%

699

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +78%

1817

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +266%

422

HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

2400 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 619

900 MHz

GPU frequency

825 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4224 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

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

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

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3650

Model number

SM4350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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