HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 . 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 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3244 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +84%

685

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +54%

1568

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +181%

324

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2400 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

256 KB

16 nm

Process

11 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 612

900 MHz

GPU frequency

845 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3244 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

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3650

Model number

SM6150-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

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