HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G . 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 2300MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +103%

756

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +75%

1783

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +233%

384

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2400 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 618

900 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.384 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)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

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 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

384 kHz/32 bit

-

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 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

Mid range

Hi3650

Model number

SM7125

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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