HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 5.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +347%

1664

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +296%

4030

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +2084%

2512

HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2400 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 730

900 MHz

GPU frequency

818 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.5128 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

-

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Dec 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

SM8450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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