HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . 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 10W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +298%

1481

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +273%

3794

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +1395%

1720

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2400 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 660

900 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

512

4

Max size

24

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

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 780

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

SM8350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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